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clyster

/klis-ter/US // ˈklɪs tər //UK // (ˈklɪstə) //

狡猾的人,狡猾的家伙,狡兔三窟,狡猾者

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Medicine/Medical.

    • : an enema.

Examples

  • Either by physic forward or by clyster backward or both ways to get an easy and plentiful going to stool and breaking of wind.

  • Our modern medical writers ascribe great virtues to tobacco-water, injected into the womb by means of a clyster.

  • If she goes not well to stool, give a clyster made only of the decoction of mallows and a little brown sugar.

  • I must purge and clyster after this; and my next letter will not be in the old order of journal, till I have done with physic.

  • In the excavations of the Roman Hospital at Baden there was found the tube of a clyster in bronze.