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
Perhaps the alarm bells should have started ringing when he began prescribing shampoo to treat a cold, creosote for toothache or suggested patients swallow their suppositories.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2025
For example, in Aëtius of Amida’s sixth-century medical treatise, the author details the use of contraceptive vaginal suppositories, elaborating on the improvements to the recipe from Soranus’s time.
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
Local measures consist of painting or swabbing the vagina and cervix with various solutions, of tampons, suppositories and douches.
From Woman Her Sex and Love Life by William J. Robinson
