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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
enema
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
barium
▪ Distal small bowel lesions may also be shown by reflux at barium enema or by entering the terminal ileum at colonoscopy.
▪ At the onset she had been referred to a surgeon and had a normal barium enema and chest x ray.
▪ If the patient is over 40 or has risk factors for colon carcinoma, a barium enema is prudent.
▪ Three patients refused endoscopy, two refused sigmoidoscopy, and nine patients refused to have a barium enema or colonoscopic examination.
▪ In this series we feel that no carcinoma was missed by barium enema in view of the follow up exceeding four years.
▪ Barium follow-through, gastroscopy, sigmoidoscopy, barium enema, abdominal ultrasound scan, and chest radiograph were all normal.
▪ Of course, if colonoscopy is used instead of barium enema there would be no need for a separate sigmoidoscopy.
▪ I was in the process of administering a barium enema.
■ VERB
give
▪ I was shaved, given an enema, sent to shower and then directed to a bed in the delivery room.
▪ Prior to each of the investigations and the operation, Mr Reynolds was given an enema and then rectal washouts.
▪ This is achieved by giving laxatives, enemas and finally at least one rectal washout.
▪ And do many fans, we wonder, fantasize about being given an enema by Van Morrison?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a barium meal/enema/swallow
▪ During the pre-operative period Mr Reynolds also have several investigations performed, including a barium enema and a sigmoidoscopy and biopsy.
▪ I was in the process of administering a barium enema.
▪ If the patient is over 40 or has risk factors for colon carcinoma, a barium enema is prudent.
▪ Oesophageal radionuclide transit was evaluated in 15 patients and a barium meal was performed in five cases to confirm endoscopical findings.
▪ So I went to see a man in Devonshire Place and he sent me down the road for a barium meal X-ray.
▪ The following year the surgeon arranged an x ray of her lumbar spine and a barium meal, which were normal.
▪ Three patients refused endoscopy, two refused sigmoidoscopy, and nine patients refused to have a barium enema or colonoscopic examination.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A small bowel enema examination was normal.
▪ A soapy enema was given daily to avoid accumulation of faeces.
▪ Bismuth enemas may offer a new therapeutic option in distal ulcerative colitis.
▪ Caffeine enemas are given four hourly, as well as castor oil - orally or by enema - to aid detoxification.
▪ Distal small bowel lesions may also be shown by reflux at barium enema or by entering the terminal ileum at colonoscopy.
▪ In this series we feel that no carcinoma was missed by barium enema in view of the follow up exceeding four years.
▪ One patient was treated with sulphasalazine and one with lidocaine enema.
▪ There was a significant improvement in all symptoms with both 5-ASA and bismuth enemas.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enema

Enema \En"e*ma\, n.; pl. L. Enemata. [L. enema, Gr. ?, fr. ? to send in; ? in + ? to send.] (Med.) An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment.
--Hoblyn.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
enema

early 15c., via Medieval Latin, from Greek enema "injection," from enienai "to send in, inject," from en "in" (see en- (2)) + hienai "send" (cognate of Latin iacere; see jet (v.)).

Wiktionary
enema

n. 1 An injection of fluid into the rectum, usually for medical purposes. 2 The fluid so injected.

WordNet
enema

  1. n. injection of a liquid through the anus to stimulate evacuation; sometimes used for diagnostic purposes [syn: clyster]

  2. [also: enemata (pl)]

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Wikipedia
Enema

An enema (; plural enemata or enemas) or clyster, is a fluid injected into the lower bowel by way of the rectum.

The most frequent use of an enema is to relieve constipation or for bowel cleansing before a medical examination or procedure. In standard medicine an enema may also be employed as a lower gastrointestinal series (also called a barium enema), to check diarrhea, as a vehicle for the administration of food, water or medicine, as a stimulant to the general system, as a local application and, more rarely, as a means of reducing temperature as treatment for encopresis, and as a form of rehydration therapy ( proctoclysis) in patients for whom intravenous therapy is not applicable.

Enemas are used as part of some alternative health therapies and are also used to administer drugs for recreational or religious reasons, as well as for sexual and other purposes.

Usage examples of "enema".

In another one my mother was giving me an enema and I was begging her to hurry because Joe was outside waiting for me.

Almost invariably it was an enema of cold water administered from an adult-sized bag, containing about twice as much water as would normally be given to a child or infant.

After the enema Hattie insisted that the child walk around the room holding in the water.

The buttonhook was at fault, or the enema tip, or the other instruments of torture.

When she asked for more data to check whether this was a real problem, Enema refused to give it to her.

When Enema still refused to show it to her, she more or less called him a liar.

As she studied it, she noticed something than Enema seemed to have missed.

Particularly when he held her apart for the nozzle of the enema bottle and began to squeeze the liquid into her bottom.

Susan returned, Anthony had set up an enema bag on an IV stand on wheels and he had placed it to the side of the leather-upholstered examining table.

The setting may be clinical, but the enema must be administered for punishment rather than health or hygiene, and always In conjunction with spanking.

Perhaps ten minutes had passed since administering the enema and as yet she felt no discomfort.

Patricia fastened the straps of the leather body harness around her naked torso, Michael prepared her second enema with a fuller bag.

Henry Crawford, a dominant, aged 33, who was an avid spanking enthusiast and enema fetishist.

The third was retention enema, using a double Bardex, with me on the table in the knee to chest position.

The sensation was similar to that created by an enema sickly sweat-making.