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Clyster   Listen
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Clyster  n.  (Med.) A liquid injected into the lower intestines by means of a syringe; an injection; an enema.
Clyster pipe, a tube or pipe used for injections.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Clyster" Quotes from Famous Books



... Of ton when George the Fourth was king. And Lieut. Pooley, for whose skill The "Gully" bridge is named so still, Ask Lyman Perkins, if you doubt it, And he will tell you all about it. And Dr. Tuthill, who with skill Could cure more readily than kill, Physic'd, emetic'd, too, and clyster'd, And con amore, bled and blister'd, In the old Hospital, which stood Unscathed by tempest, fire, or flood, For fifty years, to be down cast, By chance, or carelessness, at last, Theme for conjecture, most prolific, ...
— Recollections of Bytown and Its Old Inhabitants • William Pittman Lett

... immediately into the Mass of Blood; videl: By making Ligatures on the Veines, and then opening them on the side of the Ligature towards the Heart, and by putting into them slender Syringes or Quills, fastened to Bladders (in the manner of Clyster-pipes) containing the matter to be injected; performing that Operation upon pretty big and lean doggs, that the Vessels might be large enough ...
— Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 • Various



Words linked to "Clyster" :   barium enema, enema, colonic irrigation



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