enema

See also: ene'ma, ènema, and ę́nemą

English

An enema bucket and an enema bag

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin enema, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔνεμα (énema, “injection”), from ἐνίημι (eníēmi, “to send in, inject”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛn.ə.mə/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

enema (plural enemas or enemata)

1. An injection of fluid into the large intestine by way of the rectum, usually for medical purposes.
   • 1875, Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 12, page 133:

     To the distensile enema of simple tepid water, no valid objection can be urged.

   • 1934, George Morris Piersol, Edward LeRoy Bortz, The Cyclopedia of Medicine, volume 10, F. A. Davis Company:

     […] It is further neglected by a mental dependence upon cathartics or enemata to produce the stimulation. Defecalgesiophobia is a common cause for neglecting the act.

   • 1983, Richard E. Behrman, Victor C. Vaughan, III, Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics‎^[1], W. B. Saunders, →ISBN, page 249:

     Iatrogenic poisoning can result from the use of magnesium in the treatment of hypertension or of toxemia of pregnancy; deaths have been reported from the use of magnesium sulfate enemas in megacolon and from oral administration for purging.

2. The fluid so injected.
3. A device for administering such an injection.

Synonyms

• (fluid so injected): clyster

Derived terms

• alcohol enema
• enematic

Translations

injection of fluid into the rectum

• Arabic: حُقْنَة شَرَجِيَّة f (ḥuqna šarajiyya), حُقْنَة f (ḥuqna)
• Armenian: հոգնա (hy) (hogna)
• Bulgarian: клизма f (klizma)
• Catalan: ènema m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 灌腸劑 / 灌肠剂 (zh) (guànchángjì), 灌腸 / 灌肠 (zh) (guàncháng)

• Czech: klystýr (cs) m
• Dutch: klysma (nl) n, lavement (nl) n
• Esperanto: klistero
• Finnish: peräruiske (fi)
• French: lavement (fr) m
• Georgian: ოყნა (oq̇na)
• German: Einlauf (de) m, Klistier (de) n
• Greek: κλύσμα (el) n (klýsma), υποκλυσμός (el) m (ypoklysmós)

  Ancient: κλύσμα n (klúsma), ἔνεμα n (énema)

• Hebrew: חוקן (he) m (khóken)
• Hungarian: beöntés (hu)
• Indonesian: enema, lavemen, klisma
• Italian: clistere (it) m, lavativo (it) m
• Japanese: 浣腸 (ja) (かんちょう, kanchō)
• Korean: 관장(灌腸) (ko) (gwanjang)
• Macedonian: клизма f (klizma)
• Norman: lavement m (Jersey)
• Polish: lewatywa (pl) f, enema (pl) f, klizma (pl) f
• Portuguese: enema m, clister m
• Romanian: clismă (ro) f
• Russian: кли́зма (ru) f (klízma), клисти́р (ru) m (klistír)
• Slovak: klystír m
• Spanish: enema (es) m, lavativa (es) f, clister (es) m, clistel m
• Swedish: lavemang (sv)
• Turkish: lavman (tr)
• Welsh: enema (cy) m or f, rhefrolch m (literary)

fluid so injected

• Czech: klystýr (cs) m
• Finnish: peräruiske (fi)
• Portuguese: enema m, clister m
• Spanish: enema (es) m, clister (es) m, clistel m
• Turkish: lavman (tr)

Anagrams

• Ameen, Menae, Naeem, amene, meane

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin enema, from Ancient Greek ἔνεμα (énema, “injection”), from ἐνίημι (eníēmi, “to send in, inject”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /eˈnẽ.mɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /eˈnẽ.mɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /eˈne.ma/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /iˈne.mɐ/

• Hyphenation: e‧ne‧ma

Noun

enema m (plural enemas)

1. enema (injection of fluid into the rectum)

   Synonyms: clister, enteroclisma, (Brazil) chuca

2. enema (the injected fluid)

   Synonym: clister

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin enema, from Ancient Greek ἔνεμα (énema, “injection”), from ἐνίημι (eníēmi, “to send in, inject”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eˈnema/ [eˈne.ma]
• Rhymes: -ema
• Syllabification: e‧ne‧ma

Noun

enema m (plural enemas)

1. enema (injection of fluid into the rectum)

   Synonyms: clister, lavado, lavativa

2. enema (the injected fluid)

Further reading

• “enema”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	enema
Brazilian standard	eneema
New Tribes	eneema

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [eneːma]

Verb

enema

1. (transitive) to abide by (a ritual prohibition)

Derived terms

• öönema

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “enema”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[2], Lyon