suppository
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By Wednesday evening, only three boxes of generic ibuprofen chewables, two boxes of generic acetaminophen chewables and six boxes of suppository acetaminophen remained.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022
If you do, you'll be given an antifungal prescription like fluconazole, or told to purchase an over-the-counter cream or ointment, or a suppository that's inserted into the vagina.
From US News ● Dec. 22, 2015
“None of the babies ever had a ‘colic,’ a laxative, an enema, or a suppository, and at the age of five or six weeks they all slept through the night.”
From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2015
He said: "No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom."
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2013
Once a nurse inserted a suppository to loosen his bowels and did not return, although he cramped his finger ringing the buzzer, until after he had soiled his pajamas.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
According to Le Monde newspaper, the devices were nicknamed "suppositories" by prison inmates because of their ease of concealment.
From BBC ● May 20, 2025
Despite the prohibition in the Hippocratic Oath, gynecological texts were replete with recipes for contraceptive and abortive suppositories.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 11, 2020
Kinder ™ egg suppositories are already responsible for a greater flow of goods annually than the government’s botched Brexit ferry scheme.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2019
She warns that the suppositories “could lead to more irritation.”
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2019
He promoted a lymphatic flow from the rest of the body by putting suppositories of chloride of sodium inside drainage-tubes in the wound.
From Leaves from a Field Note-Book by John Hartman Morgan
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