How to Use enema in a Sentence

enema

noun
  • The nurse gave the patient an enema.
  • First things first: What is an enema, and why do people do them?
    Amanda MacMillan, Health.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Coffee enemas have also been linked to at least two deaths.
    Amanda MacMillan, Health.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Patients don’t have to go through the full bowel cleanse prep, as an enema the day of the test is typically sufficient.
    Theresa Sullivan Barger, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
  • There was also a treatment calling for a coffee and herbal enema.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 16 June 2017
  • Many of these customers also appreciate the enema and Sitz-bath features of the BB-2000.
    Hannah Sherk, Health.com, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Trying an enema before anal play can expel any waste from the rectum, but that's totally up to you, too.
    Gigi Engle, Marie Claire, 25 Aug. 2017
  • Among the treatments Messer allegedly prescribed were laetrile and three castor oil enemas per day for three months.
    Christine Willmsen, The Seattle Times, 29 May 2017
  • Rectal laxatives, on the other hand, are given as an enema and work much more quickly.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Ways to empty the bowels include pills, drinking a laxative solution or the use of an enema the night before the procedure.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 6 Dec. 2022
  • So it's usually smoked, ingested in the form of snuff, or used as an enema by those seeking the full hallucinogenic effect.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2022
  • You may also be asked to fast for a period of time and use an enema to flush out anything that remains in your colon (which, honestly, may not even feel like it’s possible).
    Rebecca Joy Stanborough, SELF, 7 Jan. 2022
  • That said, there’s plenty of evidence that coffee enemas and colon cleanses in general can cause harm.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 6 Jan. 2018
  • Too many enemas may stop you from having normal bowel movements.
    sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • There is more fingertip-grazing in The World to Come, sandwiched between extreme hog-killing, a molasses-and-lard enema, and a blizzard of historic proportions.
    Aaron Hicklin, Town & Country, 2 Mar. 2021
  • To slow the process of decay, a turpentine-like solution was sometimes injected as an enema to dissolve the digestive tract.
    George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2013
  • More advanced cases may need to be treated with an enema or suppository, but this process is usually above the paygrade of the owner.
    Michael Pollick, chicagotribune.com, 28 Feb. 2021
  • John Doe claims a hospital staffer took a photograph of him receiving an enema and text messaged it to other employees.
    Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Rebyota, a blend of donor stool, saline, and laxative solution given in a single treatment as an enema.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Some of the most promising research involves fecal transplantation — the introduction through colonoscopy, endoscopy or enema of a donor stool.
    Fortune, 12 June 2018
  • Messer then hired Lovage to work off her bill by cleaning the residential spa, serving soup to patients and presenting workshops on the enemas, according to her lawsuit.
    Christine Willmsen, The Seattle Times, 29 May 2017
  • Your doctor may also prescribe an enema, a rectal laxative that can spur bowel movements.
    Cat Lafuente, Health.com, 9 Feb. 2022
  • But other experts dispute those claims, saying that there's truly no need to give yourself a coffee enema or colonic literally ever.
    Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 12 Jan. 2018
  • In drugstores, grinning enemas helpfully guide those in gastrointestinal distress to the proper medicine.
    Matt Alt, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2020
  • What remains is a soupy mixture of probiotic and fecal material that, for Ana, was administered as an enema into the colon.
    Kim Campbell Thornton, sacbee, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Several clinical trials have shown that the transplants, which involve giving a person stool collected from a healthy donor in a pill or as an enema, can cure this often stubborn condition.
    BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • An internal bath is an enema, which has real medical value.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Nov. 2021
  • Other such treatments in history included cigarettes laced with mercury or arsenic, port-wine enemas, the excreta of chameleons and Indian river snakes, and the gastric juices of crows.
    Adrian Woolfson, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018
  • Now, a decade later, Acevedo has heard about lots of hyped alternative approaches for autism, most recently worrisome reports of parents giving their kids bleach drinks or enemas.
    Jacqueline Stenson, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Diets, exercise, and various versions of self-care have been around forever: Antecedents are found at an Austrian spa still famous for its enemas and in 1970s L.A., where wheatgrass was just as popular as cocaine.
    Amy Larocca, The Cut, 27 June 2017

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