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Date: 1600-1700
Language: Late Latin
Origin: Greek, from enienai 'to send in, inject'

enema

 noun
     
Related topics: Hospital
en‧e‧ma [countable]
MH a liquid that is put into someone's rectum to make their bowels empty
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