Clyster

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈklɪstÉ™/

Origin

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

Full definition of clyster

Noun

1. (now rare) A medicine applied via the rectum; an enema or suppository
• 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 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.