Clyster

Definition: Clyster

Clyster

Noun

1. Injection of a liquid through the anus to stimulate evacuation; sometimes used for diagnostic purposes.

Date "clyster" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Domain	Definition
Health	The pipe or syringe used in injections or enemas. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Clyster

Synonym: enema (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Insertion	Clyster, enema, glyster, lavage, lavement.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Clyster

English words defined with "clyster": Clyster pipe ♦ Glyster ♦ Lavement. (references)

Specialty definitions using "clyster": CLYSTER PIPE. (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	[Self-injection clyster apparatus]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expression using "clyster": clyster pipe. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "clyster": clyster-pipe.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "clyster"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		klister. (various references)

Arabic		‏حقنة شرجية (enema). (various references)

Bulgarian		клистир, клизма (enema, lavement), поставям клистер. (various references)

Czech		klystýr (enema). (various references)

Danish		clysma (enema), lavementsproejte, lavement (enema). (various references)

Dutch		lavement (enema), klysma (enema), klisteerspuit, klisteer (enema). (various references)

Finnish		peräruiske (enema), enema (enema), ,klysma (enema). (various references)

French		clystère, lavement. (various references)

German		klistier (enema). (various references)

Greek		κλύσμα (enema), κλυστήρας (enema), υποκλυσμός (enema), διακλυσμός (enema). (various references)

Hebrew		מסיכ�" (blend, embrocation, enema, liniment, mixture, ointment), חוקן (enema, syringe). (various references)

Hungarian		klistér, beöntést ad, beöntés (enema, infusion, irruption). (various references)

Italian		clistere (enema). (various references)

Manx		glister. (various references)

Pig Latin		ysterclay

Portuguese		clister, clíster (enema, lavender). (various references)

Romanian		clismã (enema). (various references)

Russian		ставить клистир, клистир, клизма (enema, lavement). (various references)

Scottish		cliostar (a clyster), gliostair (a clyster). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		klistirati, klistir (enema). (various references)

Spanish		enema (enema). (various references)

Swedish		klister (adhesive, glue, gum, paste). (various references)

Turkish		tenkiye, lavman (enema, injection, washing), lâvman. (various references)

Ukrainian		ставити клізму, клістир, клізма (enema). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "clyster": clysters. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "clyster" (pronounced 'Clys"ter'): Abutter, Acater, Acquitter, Adelaster, Admitter, Adulter, Aflutter, Aglitter, Alabaster, Allotter, Amylobacter, Antitrochanter, Apporter, Atter, Auntter, Auster, Balter, Baxter, Beflatter, Begetter, Bemaster, Beplaster, Bescatter, Besetter, Bespatter, Bewinter, Blatter, Blotter, Boroughmaster, Boulter, Bunter, Buster, Canaster, Cauter, Cheirepter, Chitter, Chowter, Cinter, Circumcenter, Climacter, Clotter, Coleopter, Colter, Committer, Complotter, Concertmeister, Coniroster, Coster, Crater, Cremaster. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-l-r-s-t-y"
	-1 letter: cresyl, styler.
	-2 letters: celts, crest, lyres, slyer, style, treys, tyers, tyres.
	-3 letters: cels, celt, cyst, erst, lest, lets, leys, lyes, lyre, lyse, recs, rely, rest, rets, ryes, scry, sect, stey, stye, syce, tels, trey, tyer, tyes, tyre.
	-4 letters: cel, cry, els, ers, let, ley, lye, rec, res, ret, rye, sec, sel, ser, set, sly.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-l-r-s-t-y"
	+1 letter: clustery, clysters, secretly.
	+2 letters: acrylates, calypters, cryolites, tricycles.
	+3 letters: catalyzers, chrysolite, chrysotile, clearstory, clerestory, crystalize, discreetly, discretely, escalatory, hysterical, lysimetric, secularity, spectrally, sterically.
	+4 letters: ancestrally, chrysolites, chrysotiles, courteously, crystalized, crystalizes, crystalline, crystallise, crystallite, crystallize, cyclometers, eristically, flycatchers, motorcycles, plyometrics, presciently, respectably, secretively, specularity, subliteracy, symmetrical, tracklayers.
	+5 letters: abstractedly, asymmetrical, carboxylates, counterplays, counterploys, counterstyle, cryptologies, crystallised, crystallises, crystallites, crystallized, crystallizer, crystallizes, discrepantly, distractedly, electrolyses, electrolysis, electrolytes, electrolyzes, electrotypes, esoterically, excrescently, glycerinates, granulocytes, heterocycles, hyperplastic, hysterically, indiscreetly, iridescently, lycanthropes, meristically, orchestrally, phylacteries, plebiscitary, polycentrism, pterodactyls, respectfully, respectively, restrictedly, sacerdotally, scatteringly, subcentrally, sylviculture, translucency, unhysterical, vesicularity.
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