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enema

[en-uh-muh] / ˈɛn ə mə /
NOUN
injection
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Davids — who grew up in South Africa, where culturally it’s common for grandmothers to administer enemas to children in rural areas — does a coffee enema twice per month.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

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

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

Called fleets because they were fleeting, the word is also a brand name for an enema — something many people pointed out on Twitter when the feature launched.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2021

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

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Davids — who grew up in South Africa, where culturally it’s common for grandmothers to administer enemas to children in rural areas — does a coffee enema twice per month.

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

Fifty years from now that diet might seem as crazy as Kellogg’s enemas.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

The length of time during which the enemata and the douche are to be used, whether months or years, will depend on the character of the disease that made its use necessary.

From Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis by Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton) Jamison

The patient must be encouraged to take plenty of easily digested fluid food, supplemented, if necessary, by nutrient enemata and saline infusions.

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

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

The bowels should be freely moved by purgatives or enemata.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles

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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