clyster

From Middle French clystere, or its source, Latin clyster, from Ancient Greek κλυστήρ (klustḗr).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈklɪstə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈklɪstɚ/

clyster (plural clysters)

1. (now rare) A medicine applied via the rectum; an enema or suppository.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):

     , vol.I, New York 2001, p.233-4:

     Cnelius a physician being sent for, found his costiveness alone to be the cause, and thereupon gave him a clyster, by which he was speedily recovered.

clyster (plural clysteres)

1. clyster, enema, suppository