enema

Learned borrowing from Late Latin enema, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔνεμα (énema, “injection”), from ἐνίημι (eníēmi, “to send in, inject”).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛn.ə.mə/

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enema (plural enemas or enemata)

1. An injection of fluid into the large intestine by way of the rectum, usually for medical purposes.
   • 1875, Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 12, page 133:

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

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

     […] 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.

   • 1983, Richard E. Behrman, Victor C. Vaughan, III, Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics‎^[1], W. B. Saunders, →ISBN, page 249:

     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.

2. The fluid so injected.
3. A device for administering such an injection.

• (fluid so injected): clyster

• alcohol enema
• enematic

• Ameen, Menae, Naeem, amene, meane

Learned borrowing from Latin enema, from Ancient Greek ἔνεμα (énema, “injection”), from ἐνίημι (eníēmi, “to send in, inject”).

• Hyphenation: e‧ne‧ma

enema m (plural enemas)

1. enema (injection of fluid into the rectum)

   Synonyms: clister, enteroclisma, (Brazil) chuca

2. enema (the injected fluid)

   Synonym: clister

Learned borrowing from Latin enema, from Ancient Greek ἔνεμα (énema, “injection”), from ἐνίημι (eníēmi, “to send in, inject”).

• IPA^(key): /eˈnema/ [eˈne.ma]
• Rhymes: -ema
• Syllabification: e‧ne‧ma

enema m (plural enemas)

1. enema (injection of fluid into the rectum)

   Synonyms: clister, lavado, lavativa

2. enema (the injected fluid)

• “enema”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28

• IPA^(key): [eneːma]

enema

1. (transitive) to abide by (a ritual prohibition)

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “enema”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[2], Lyon