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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
suppository
noun
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▪ Enemas and suppositories may be of use but habitual use of these can create an unhappy and strained parent-child relationship.
▪ In addition, particularly if you are to have surgery, bring some glycerine suppositories.
▪ No suppositories for her, no thank you.
▪ One of the better-known brands, Cafergot, contains 100 milligrams of caffeine in each tablet or suppository.
▪ Some even insert caffeine suppositories before a race in an attempt to provide a sustained dose with no stomach upset.
▪ Some one phoned up a pre-watershed live show and started telling a joke about putting suppositories up your bum.
▪ Some women get good results from a vaginal suppository of progesterone.
▪ The oil was employed in various ways which included baths, steam inhalations and suppositories.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suppository

Suppository \Sup*pos"i*to*ry\, n.; pl. Suppositories. [LL. suppositorium, fr. L. suppositorius that is placed underneath: cf. F. suppositoire. See Supposition.] (Med.) A pill or bolus for introduction into the rectum; esp., a cylinder or cone of medicated cacao butter.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
suppository

late 14c., from Medieval Latin suppositorium "a suppository," noun use of neuter of Late Latin adjective suppositorius "placed underneath or up," from Latin suppositus, past participle of supponere "put or place under" (see suppose).

Wiktionary
suppository

n. A medicine in the form of a small plug that is inserted into a bodily cavity, especially the rectum, vagina or urethra, where it melts at body temperature.

WordNet
suppository

n. a small plug of medication designed for insertion into the rectum or vagina where it melts

Wikipedia
Suppository

A suppository is a solid dosage form that is inserted into the rectum (rectal suppository), vagina ( vaginal suppository) or urethra (urethral suppository), where it dissolves or melts and exerts local or systemic effects. They are used to deliver both systemically and locally acting medications.

Usage examples of "suppository".

In cases where there is prolapsus or falling of the womb, or Anteversion or Retroversion, or other displacements the use of the Antiseptic and Healing Suppositories will be found to be of great benefit in giving strength to the supports of the womb and its appendages.

Antiseptic and Healing Suppositories, applying one every third night After having first cleansed the vagina and neck of the womb thoroughly by the use of warm water and soap as an injection, will prove of great benefit in giving strength to the supports of the womb and its appendages.

But it can be taken by mouth in tablet form, by intranasal spray, or in suppository form.

God, these Methedrine suppositories that Yogi Vithaldas gave me are good!

They also set fire to their mustard plasters and their Preparation-H suppositories, and fanned that smoke of acrid mustard and poisonous mercury at the besiegers.

Inside there was a small red biohazard waste container and scores of plastic bags filled with disposable hypodermics, ampules, and suppositories.

I am giving you here some iron pills and fish-liver oil to help restore her blood, and some suppositories that will dull the pain of her insides.

But I never heard of anyone selling hemorrhoid suppositories on the street.

Hoke rummaged through the purse and found a narrow cardboard box of suppositories, each of them wrapped in blue tinfoil.

Hoke put the suppositories back in the purse and took out Loretta's checkbook.

As soon as he came back from the dentist in Panama City, he wouldn't need the suppositories the major had given him.