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.

   • 2012 September 26, Jacque Wilson, “Experts: Alcohol enemas ‘extremely dangerous’”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     But alcohol enemas are no laughing matter, experts say. […] Using an alcohol enema involves placing a small tube into someone’s rectum and pouring alcohol into the colon.

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

• (fluid so injected): clyster

• alcohol enema
• enematic

enema (third-person singular simple present enemas, present participle enemaing, simple past and past participle enemaed)

1. To administer an enema.

   It's common to enema before anal sex.

   • 1975, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Transactions & Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia‎^[3]:

     It would take simpler souls with little or no training to do the yeoman work of enemaing and puking the sick people of the community.

   • 1977, Brennan, Barbara, Heilman, Joan Rattner, The Complete Book of Midwifery‎^[4]:

     "So, there I was, shaved and enemaed, in the labor room with my husband.

   • 1998, Susan Smith Nash, Doomsday Belly‎^[5]:

     I got out of the hospital after my last suicide attempt — the one where I tried to enema myself to death with hot buttered rum

   • 2024 March 3, CABAL, TokyoAdultGuide.com‎^[6]:

     Shower and she enemas herself and I put towels on the bed, which in retrospect weren't enough because her enema spilt over onto the sheets

• Ameen, Menae, Naeem, amene, meane

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

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

enema (plural enema-enema)

1. (medicine) enema

• “enema” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• IPA^(key): [eneːma]

enema

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

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “enema”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[7], Lyon