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enema

[en-uh-muh] / ˈɛn ə mə /
NOUN
injection
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If that means I have to get a coffee enema, I’m getting a coffee enema.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2025

The sooner you take your dog to its veterinarian, the greater the chance of removing the toxin from its body through methods such as inducing vomiting or administering an enema.

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023

They may try to remove the impaction manually or administer a warm-water enema to flush it out.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2023

The microbiome company Rebiotix Inc. last year announced positive results from a phase 3 trial of its recurrent C. difficile treatment, a filtered stool product delivered as an enema.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 19, 2022

Amid hot-water bottles and enema bags, he placed his bets.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

In addition to using coffee enemas to treat cancer, the majority of users online report turning to them for constipation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

In the 19th century, an American doctor, Russell Thatcher Trall, did the same, adding cold-water enemas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

After her diagnosis in December 2023, Ms Shemirani went to live with her mother and began having five coffee enemas a day, according to her brothers.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025

What if an incurable condition could be managed with fresh juice and coffee enemas?

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2025

Some of his advice included all-grape diets and almost hourly enemas.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

He has been too weak to take enemata, so we cannot say if motions would still have been offensive.

From The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine by Charles William Daniel

The patient should be allowed to suck a little ice to allay thirst, and opiate and nutritive enemata will be found quite sufficient to keep up the strength in ordinary cases.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell

Purgatives and enemata used often and for a long time.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter

After a nutritive enemata the patient should lie quietly on his back for twenty or thirty minutes.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter

When this is impracticable, nutrient enemata are called for.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson


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