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Definition of enema:

  • (noun) injection of a liquid through the anus to stimulate evacuation; sometimes used for diagnostic purposes

Sentence Examples:

A completely opposite, highly positive effect comes from properly administered enemas while cleansing.

In very feeble patients a nutrient enema may be administered about two hours before the operation.

An infusion of the leaves, exhibited as an enema, has, on several occasions, speedily proved fatal.

The vertical and reverse syringe is more likely to act efficiently than the ordinary enema.

When artificial means are required to move the bowels, an enema is much to be preferred to drugs.

Turpentine has also been used internally and by enema, but seems to have accomplished little good.

It in frequently a cause of constipation and creates a necessity for continuing the use of enemas indefinitely.

If I were in the business of manufacturing enema bags I'd make them hold at least one gallon.

Should the stomach be too irritable to bear it, it should be given in enema in large doses.

The bowels should be moved by an enema, and it can be repeated carefully as often as necessary.

An enema did not act, but appeared to cool the body; it remained in the body eight minutes.

During the first four months of the treatment, enemas were administered, nature being too weak to assist itself.

Cold enemas may be given repeatedly, where they are felt to be comforting, without any danger whatever.

A full enema of water, as hot as can be borne, will remove offending substances from the bowels.

One saline and one nutrient enema may be given during the night if the patient is very weak.

There is an almost immediate discharge, though not, of course, to the extent produced by the enema operation.

Use an enema every night as a routine, and drink all the water desired, when there is no nausea.

An enema apparatus is an important requisite in every nursery; it may be procured of any respectable surgical instrument-maker.

The breath reduced to a thread, no nourishment possible except by baths of beef tea, and similar enemas.

These warm enemas should be very resolutely followed up as long as they give the least comfortable feeling.

Lastly, the ordinary poisonous effects have been produced by absorption from the bowel, when administered as an enema.

The persistent use of the enema is directly influential in relieving and removing the symptoms of such disorders.

It may even be, indeed it is frequently the case, that a patient requires several enemas during the day.

In the meantime, keep the bowels regular, by an occasional enema if necessary, and your troubles will be over.

You should take a full warm enema every day during the fast, so long as it brings any results.

I prescribe an enema of warm water once or twice daily, getting all the water possible into the bowels.

As an emergency treatment, however, the enema is most satisfactory, and when employed it is best to do it thoroughly.

Third and fourth days, the same treatment was continued, with the addition of three enemas, which operated slightly.

On the other hand, if there is no solid matter to be removed, a small enema every day will suffice.

In order to keep the body properly open, an enema, or some other simple means, should be employed, when necessary.

Cool or cold enemas are rapidly absorbed and thus have a quieting influence on the large blood reservoir in the abdomen.

Constipation (if present) must be relieved by enemas of warm water, administered three or four times during the twenty-four hours.

The cold enema is less effective as a cleansing agent, as it does not have the relaxing effect of the hot enema.

Common sense declares that an enema ought to be used on all occasions of undue retention of the contents of the bowels.

If the stomach refuses or is to be spared, from four to eight grains may be given in an enema of warm water.

The lower bowel should finally be emptied thoroughly by an enema of soap and water administered three or four hours before operation.

Be sure to follow the counsel there given, and use the enema two or three times a day in moderate quantities as indicated.

In these cases rectal feeding is resorted to and from two to three nutrient enemas alternated with saline enemas are given daily.

An enema of Starch and Laudanum, as formerly described, will also relieve, in some cases, better than anything taken by the mouth.

For a chronic diarrhea an enema given in the knee-chest position, as already described, will often be found a most efficient remedy.

An enema of this water mixed with acid may be repeated as long as required with perfect safety and good effect every time.

Should we desire to move the bowels, it can be done by gentle enemas, though it is seldom necessary to resort even to this.

The enema should be given in a warm room free from drafts, and the baby must be warmly covered throughout the process.

In instances when feeding by the mouth is impossible, nutrient enemas should be given every three or four hours during the day.

Cold water may be used as an enema and should also be showered upon the body of the horse from the hose or otherwise.

The eleventh objection, and the most ridiculous of all, is that it requires too much time to take the enema twice or thrice daily.

On several occasions it has yielded me marked results when given by stomach or by enema in cases of nervous and cardiac depression.

This flushing must not be confused with the administration of an enema for constipation, for which, however, it is often an excellent substitute.

Occasionally enemas, by filling the colon and making it press on the liver, induce discharges of highly toxic bile that may cause temporary nausea.

I do not want to start with the enema again if I can possibly manage to do without, because I found that my bowels depended upon it.

After each bowel movement, no matter how often they come, the colon should be washed out with the salt and soda enema as before mentioned.

Pritchard at once proceeded to prepare the enema, and said he had a little before given her one, in which he had administered a glass of brandy.

When, however, she heard of her daughter's cure, the bright old woman gave up her enemas and let her bowels do their own functioning.

"Yes, and I fancy you must have had a taster of it some time or other, as I know you always take your enema for a ride with you."

For this reason better results are often obtained by having one enema, waiting a half hour, another enema, wait a half hour, and have a final enema.

No possible harm can come from the generous use of the enema during a lifetime; indeed, its constant use will prolong life and make it more comfortable.

Prepare patient by giving enema, sponge bath, braiding the hair, putting on clean white stockings and a gown which can be rolled up around waist.

To take the enema, assume either the knee-chest position (kneeling with the shoulders close to the floor) or lie on the right side with the hips elevated.

Once the faster has experienced the relief from symptoms that usually comes from an enema they become more than willing to repeat this mildly unpleasant experience.

In one instance, the nitrate was used in strong solution as an enema, but most of the cases were due to the taking of too large an internal dose.

The less noise or force attending the operation the less likely is the animal to be alarmed or excited, and the probability is the enema will be retained.

The consequence of these continued doses is to produce greater and greater paralysis, and ultimately death itself; in these cases the cold enema is of great value.

The enema is a valuable instrument, which a hunting man should not be without, as its use, when you are in strong exercise, is often more advisable than medicine.

In the majority of cases, the enema does not require more than from five to ten minutes; hence, only harm can result if really hot water be used.

I can die and do a good job of it without a lot of outside interference, and I wish they'd quit picking at me with syringes and sacraments and enemas.

If, from the enema, nothing follows, the finger should then certainly be introduced, and perhaps a compact mass may be felt firmly grasped by the intestine.

He found a well-constituted woman of twenty-two in horrible agony, who they said had not had a passage of the bowels for eight days, so he prescribed an enema.

After the patient has been given the enema and has been shaved, and the bath has been administered as previously directed, the helper most vigorously "scrubs up."

They wonder at themselves for being so rash and bold as to take an enema twice a week, and begin to feel that they have reached a point of positive danger.

If the patient lies on the left side while these injections are taken or given, the enema flows higher up, and it should be retained for a reasonable length of time.

If the woman is going around, so that she can give the enema to herself, the most effective way to take it is in the knee-chest position or an approximation to this.

Or perhaps it might be that once a person discovers they can cure a headache, stop a cold dead in its tracks with an enema, they aren't visiting the M.D.s so often.

From half an ounce to a quarter of a pint of this may be employed as an enema, which should be administered with great gentleness, as the desire is that it should be retained.

This actually can happen; when it does occur it is the result of frequent administration of small amounts of water (fleet enemas) for the purpose of stimulating a normal bowel movement.

The patient should be placed upon the left side with the hips well elevated and should be kept in that position for fifteen to twenty minutes after the enema has been given.

He who makes a practice of flushing out his intestinal tract with high enemas and internal baths is like a person who eats a good dinner and then proceeds to wash out his stomach.

Not knowing what she might, or might not, find in the way of remedies when she arrived at her destination, my friend took with her some strong barley water, bananas, and an enema syringe.

The enema, moreover, be it noted, not only aids the system by relieving it of its load: it cleanses and soothes an organ that must keep at work and perform its function even when invaded by disease.