n. A medicine applied via the rectum; an enema or suppository
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A liquid injected into the lower intestines by means of a syringe; an injection; an enema.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. An enema; an injection.
To administer a rectal injection: same as clysterize.
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n. an injection of a liquid through the anus to stimulate evacuation; sometimes used for diagnostic purposes
Word Usage
"Curious to say the clyster is almost unknown to the people of Hindostan although the barbarous West Africans use it daily to “wash ‘um belly,” as the Bonney-men say."