CLYSTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clyster mean? 

• CLYSTER (noun)
  The noun CLYSTER has 1 sense:

1. an injection of a liquid through the anus to stimulate evacuation; sometimes used for diagnostic purposes

  Familiarity information: CLYSTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLYSTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An injection of a liquid through the anus to stimulate evacuation; sometimes used for diagnostic purposes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

clyster; enema

Hypernyms ("clyster" is a kind of...):

irrigation ((medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clyster"):

colonic; colonic irrigation (a water enema given to flush out the colon)

barium enema (enema in which a contrast medium (usually barium sulfate) is injected into the rectum and X-rays are taken to search for lesions)

 Context examples 

Their next business is from herbs, minerals, gums, oils, shells, salts, juices, sea-weed, excrements, barks of trees, serpents, toads, frogs, spiders, dead men’s flesh and bones, birds, beasts, and fishes, to form a composition, for smell and taste, the most abominable, nauseous, and detestable, they can possibly contrive, which the stomach immediately rejects with loathing, and this they call a vomit; or else, from the same store-house, with some other poisonous additions, they command us to take in at the orifice above or below (just as the physician then happens to be disposed) a medicine equally annoying and disgustful to the bowels; which, relaxing the belly, drives down all before it; and this they call a purge, or a clyster.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)