(n.) A liquid injected into the lower intestines by means of a syringe; an injection; an enema.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirty-two children (group B) were premedicated by clysters depending on body weight.
(2) Stress is laid on the importance of clyster radiology and rectal manometry.
(3) The superior mesenteric vein is catheterized and filled by a clyster-pump.
(4) The phytochemistry and psychopharmacology of tobacco are well documented and there can be little doubt that this herb may produce toxic effects, when it is taken in the form of a clyster.
(5) In each case, diagnosis was the outcome of surgery: emergency operation for acute abdomen in three cases (2 mechanical ileus, 1 perforation); exploratory laparotomy for recurrent haemorrhage following negative X-ray examination per os and clyster of the digestive tract on a number of occasions.
(6) Continence is achieved by special diet, irrigation, laxatives and clysters.
Enema
Definition:
(n.) An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The objective of this investigation was to determine the frequency of and predictors for inadequate barium enemas in the frail elderly.
(2) The absorption of prednisolone from the metasulphobenzoate enema in three patients was less than from the 21-phosphate enema.
(3) Only 31 percent of the patients had colonoscopy or double-contrast barium enema x-ray beyond the neoplastic area before surgery.
(4) We conclude that routine use of Golytely is preferable to methods involving catharsis and standard tap water enemas for barium enema examination, on the grounds that it is equally effective, yet more convenient for patients and for the radiology department, and reduces total costs.
(5) To evaluate whether the addition of enemas to oral electrolyte lavage is helpful for colonoscopic preparation, we conducted a prospective, randomized, observer-blinded trial to compare oral lavage plus enemas with oral lavage alone.
(6) The study outcome of primary interest was the radiologist's report of the adequacy of examination as indicated in the written summary of the results of the barium enema procedure.
(7) In addition, MISO pretreatment followed by acetic acid enema resulted in significantly higher ornithine decarboxylase activities in the descending colon at 2 and 6 hr, compared with the vehicle plus acetic acid and MISO plus saline groups.
(8) In each patient the initial diagnostic studies--plain abdominal radiography and barium enema examination--revealed generalized small intestine distention and non-specific colonic abnormalities, respectively.
(9) After liberation of 5-ASA in the terminal ileum (only slow release oral preparations of 5-ASA) and colon (5-ASA suppositories and enemas), 5-ASA is only partly absorbed.
(10) The equivalency of results and the lower cost of the radiologic study indicate that the double-contrast barium enema is the technique of choice for the examination of asymptomatic patients or symptomatic individuals without known antecedent disease.
(11) Accuracy was 79% for rectal examination, 74% for double contrast barium enema and 72% for pelvic CT scan.
(12) The study can be easily combined with a barium enema examination.
(13) These results suggest that more emphasis on a two-day colon preparation, before the initial barium contrast enema, would substantially reduce the frequency of false-positive interpretations.
(14) Half of the synchronous cancers and almost half of the synchronous polyps were missed at double-contrast barium enema.
(15) Because many distal carcinomas were first detected with nonradiologic techniques, an unusually high percentage of carcinomas in the cecum and ascending colon were found initially with barium enema studies.
(16) The medical and radiologic records of 171 elderly institutionalized patients (mean age = 85.3 years), who underwent barium enema examinations, were retrospectively reviewed.
(17) Initial barium enema inaccuracies were documented with postendoscopic air-contrast radiography in colons that were endoscopically proved to be mechanically clean following a two-day colon preparation.
(18) Often, the severity of symptoms led to persistent evaluation with noninvasive tests such as gallium scan, intravenous pyelogram, or barium enema.
(19) A barium enema examination revealed polyps throughout the entire colon.
(20) It provides patients with an alternative therapy to the current oral and enema preparations.