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clyster
[ klis-ter ]
noun
, Medicine/Medical.
- an enema.
clyster
/ ˈklɪstə /
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of clyster1
C14: from Greek klustēr, from kluzein to rinse
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Example Sentences
Either by physic forward or by clyster backward or both ways to get an easy and plentiful going to stool and breaking of wind.
From Project Gutenberg
Our modern medical writers ascribe great virtues to tobacco-water, injected into the womb by means of a clyster.
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If she goes not well to stool, give a clyster made only of the decoction of mallows and a little brown sugar.
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I must purge and clyster after this; and my next letter will not be in the old order of journal, till I have done with physic.
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In the excavations of the Roman Hospital at Baden there was found the tube of a clyster in bronze.
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