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語源

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

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈɛn.ə.mə/

名詞

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, 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.

   • 2012 September 26, Jacque Wilson, “Experts: Alcohol enemas ‘extremely dangerous’”, in CNN‎:

     But alcohol enemas are no laughing matter, experts say. […] Using an alcohol enema involves placing a small tube into someone’s rectum and pouring alcohol into the colon.

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

同意語

• (fluid so injected): clyster

派生語

• alcohol enema
• enematic

動詞

enema (third-person singular simple present enemas, present participle enemaing, simple past and past participle enemaed)

1. To administer an enema.

   It's common to enema before anal sex.

   • 1975, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Transactions & Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia‎:

     It would take simpler souls with little or no training to do the yeoman work of enemaing and puking the sick people of the community.

   • 1977, Brennan, Barbara; Heilman, Joan Rattner, The Complete Book of Midwifery‎:

     "So, there I was, shaved and enemaed, in the labor room with my husband.

   • 1998, Susan Smith Nash, Doomsday Belly‎:

     I got out of the hospital after my last suicide attempt — the one where I tried to enema myself to death with hot buttered rum

   • 2024 March 3, CABAL, TokyoAdultGuide.com‎:

     Shower and she enemas herself and I put towels on the bed, which in retrospect weren't enough because her enema spilt over onto the sheets

アナグラム

• Ameen, Menae, Naeem, amene, meane