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- noun Plural form of
enema .
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Examples
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While these tests were being carried out, the large bowel was evacuated with copious enemata.
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During the period of coma the patient was kept warm and toxic materials eliminated from the bowel by purgation and repeated enemata.
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He could find nothing to account for these unless it were the instruments for giving enemata, which had been used in two of the former cases and were employed by these patients.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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Pliny recorded the fact that "the use of clysters or enemata was first taught by the stork, which may be observed to inject water into its bowels by means of its long beak."
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A regimen that is nutritive and at the same time laxative is essential and in some cases cathartics and enemata are necessary.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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He speaks more favourably of the introduction of food into the stomach by a silver tube; and he strongly recommends the use of nutritive enemata.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Another is that they will form the dreadful habit of using the enemata.
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Bouvard, physician to Louis XIII, applied two hundred and twenty enemata to this monarch in the course of six months.
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The bowels are to be kept soluble by enemata or appropriate medicines, and the diet should be selected so as to avoid constipation and flatulence.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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I wish the enemata did have power to weaken that part of the bowel involved in disease.
chained_bear commented on the word enemata
See usage note on febrility. Pl. enema.
March 6, 2008