enema

plural enemas · plural enemata

1. An injection of fluid into the large intestine by way of the rectum, usually for medical purposes.

   To the distensile enema of simple tepid water, no valid objection can be urged.

   1875, Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 12, page 133

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   […] It is further neglected by a mental dependence upon cathartics or enemata to produce the stimulation. Defecalgesiophobia is a common cause for neglecting the act.

   1934, George Morris Piersol, Edward LeRoy Bortz, The Cyclopedia of Medicine, volume 10, F. A. Davis Company

   Iatrogenic poisoning can result from the use of magnesium in the treatment of hypertension or of toxemia of pregnancy; deaths have been reported from the use of magnesium sulfate enemas in megacolon and from oral administration for purging.

   1983, Richard E. Behrman, Victor C. Vaughan, III, Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, W. B. Saunders, →ISBN, page 249

   But alcohol enemas are no laughing matter, experts say. […] Using an alcohol enema involves placing a small tube into someone’s rectum and pouring alcohol into the colon.

   2012 September 26, Jacque Wilson, “Experts: Alcohol enemas ‘extremely dangerous’”, in CNN

2. The fluid so injected.

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   And there is even a little known author, but a very credible one, who says that in a certain castle the Knight of Phoebus was caught in a certain trapdoor that opened beneath his feet, and he fell and found himself in a deep pit under the earth, tied hand and foot, and there he was given an enema, composed of melted snow and sand, which almost killed him, and had he not been helped in those dire straits by a wise man who was a great friend of his, things would have gone very badly for the poor knight.

   Part 1 published in 1605, Part 2 in 1615, translated in 2003, Miguel de Cervantes and translated by Edith Grossman, Don Quixote, pages 106-107

   Synonyms: clyster

3. A device for administering such an injection.

present singular third person enemas · participle present enemaing · participle past enemaed · past enemaed

1. transitiveTo administer an enema.

   It's common to enema before anal sex.

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   It would take simpler souls with little or no training to do the yeoman work of enemaing and puking the sick people of the community.

   1975, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Transactions & Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia

   "So, there I was, shaved and enemaed, in the labor room with my husband.

   1977, Brennan, Barbara; Heilman, Joan Rattner, The Complete Book of Midwifery

   I got out of the hospital after my last suicide attempt — the one where I tried to enema myself to death with hot buttered rum

   1998, Susan Smith Nash, Doomsday Belly

   Shower and she enemas herself and I put towels on the bed, which in retrospect weren't enough because her enema spilt over onto the sheets

   2024 March 3, CABAL, TokyoAdultGuide.com