Noun: enema
| Singular | enema |
| Plural | enemas; enemata |
Sample Sentences
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To the distensile enema of simple tepid water, no valid objection can be urged. [1875, Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 12, page 133:]
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[…] 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. [1934, George Morris Piersol, Edward LeRoy Bortz, The Cyclopedia of Medicine, volume 10, F. A. Davis Company:]
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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. [1983, Richard E. Behrman, Victor C. Vaughan, III, Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, W. B. Saunders, →ISBN, page 249:]
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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. [2012 September 26, Jacque Wilson, “Experts: Alcohol enemas ‘extremely dangerous’”, in CNN:]
Nouns inflected like enema
urinoma,
seroma,
rhabdomyoblastoma,
xyloma,
emphysema,
xenoma,
granuloma,
palisade parenchyma,
microadenoma,
gnathosoma,
melodrama,
gliosarcoma,
charisma,
Kaposi's sarcoma,
papilloma,
sublemma,
paranatellon,
cementoma,
osteochondroma,
melanocarcinoma, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin enema, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔνεμα (énema, “injection”), from ἐνίημι (eníēmi, “to send in, inject”). See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἔνεμα'.