Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The injection of liquid into the rectum through the anus for cleansing, for stimulating evacuation of the bowels, or for other therapeutic or diagnostic purposes.
- n. The fluid so injected.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Pl. enemata (enem′ a-tä). In medicine, a quantity of fluid injected into the rectum; a clyster; an injection.
- n. [capitalized] In entomology, a genus of scarabæoid beetles, founded by Hope in 1837. There are about 6 Mexican and North American species.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an injection of a liquid through the anus to stimulate evacuation; sometimes used for diagnostic purposes
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ἔνεμα ("injection, clyster"), from ἐνίημι ("to inject"). (Wiktionary)
- Late Latin, from Greek, from enīenai, to send in, inject : en-, in; see en-2 + hīenai, to send; see yē- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The technologist will ask why the barium enema is being performed and explain the procedure to both you and your child.”
“A barium enema is a fluoroscopic procedure which evaluates a child's colon, which is also known as the large bowel or intestine.”
“A barium enema is accomplished by inserting a tiny tube into your child's rectum.”
“So long as you call America “racist,” you could add that an enema is as good as a toothbrush and some professor of “communications theory” would applaud.” —”
“What he meant was he was having a month long word enema that is now gushing out of his bumpipe.”
“The enema is a valuable instrument, which a hunting man should not be without, as its use, when you are in strong exercise, is often more advisable than medicine.”
“Bury 'Colon cleaning' - in short enema is only for porn....”
“Dushan provides on-call enema therapies, and between times transcribes conversations between the Countess and Tolstoy.”
“Popeye: Look, Popeye, we don't need to know what kind of enema your old man needs, alright?”
“Is this a record I could find somewhere? jim you almost said "enema" instead of "Anaheim”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘enema’.
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G[r]eek
A collection of words found in English that are either purely Greek or have Greek etymology.
Please add with caution and certainty. Will be regularly updated by me.etymology, philosophy, laconic, disharmony, patriarchic, archaic, phlogiston, aether, aeon, angel, arachnid, rhythm and 346 more...
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Dingleberries
SLUTS
rizoozoo, moist, german, spock, dick tater, beast, jesus of azeroth, brittahz, purple-mounted, enema
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The braggadocio recipe
A selection of English* words ending with a vowel (except "y", "ea", ie", "ee", "oo", "ea", "ou") that is REALLY pronounced.
My favorite English words, by the way.
The good twin of The ...braggadocio, recipe, encyclopedia, solo, gnu, flu, maybe, apocope, mini, arrhythmia, folio, stereo and 197 more...
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Skip The Light Fontastic
Fonts whose names are wacky, powerful, intriguing, whimsical, exotic and so on.
buttzilla, consolas, trebuchet, chanticleer, earthpig, dwarves, ciao, ghost town, goodfish, i still know, gorilla milkshake, immoral and 212 more...
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Fran's Spanish Words
Words I like (or not), 'cause I like (or not) their sound, their meaning, or 'cause they are odd.
Palabras que me gustan o no, por cómo suenan, por su significado, o por lo curiosas que puede...barreno, caramanchón, crápula, manflorita, fatuo, vacuo, maruja, carpanta, amalgama, querubín, excelso, falocracia and 207 more...
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Daily words
genocide, Sinewy, sleazy, expatiate, prevaricate, rife, risible, rostrum, rote, rueful, rummage, treatise and 29 more...
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Beautiful Words For Unpleasant Things
Mainly medical....
diarrhoea, dysphoria, anhedonia, dysphasia, eviscerate, carcinoma, purulent, pungent, horror, furuncle, cirrhosis, borborygmus and 47 more...
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Important Concepts I Learned from Wat...
mudhen, bowel resection, tracheotomy, shrapnel, brassiere, pinko, peace talks, salami, lebanese, section 8, hot lips, frank burns eats ... and 74 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for enema.
frangarnes medicamento líquido que se introduce en el cuerpo por el ano con un instrumento adecuado para impelerlo, y sirve por lo común para limpiar y descargar el vientre; operación de introducir tal líquido; utensilio con que se realiza Oct 23, 2007