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enema

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An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment.

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After birth, a foal's navel is dipped in antiseptic to prevent infection, it is sometimes given an enema to help clear the meconium from its digestive tract, and the newborn is monitored to ensure that it stands and nurses without difficulty. Source: Internet

CT colonography (also known as virtual colonoscopy or VC for short) may be as useful as a barium enema for detection of tumors, but may use a lower radiation dose. Source: Internet

In barium enema, meconium plug syndrome rather shows normal or dilated colon as compared to micro-colon in meconium ileus. Source: Internet

Afterward I take a hot zeolite bath followed by a coffee enema and later In the day a ion foot bath. Source: Internet

Reading this you may think the downside to fecal transplants would be quite obvious—getting an enema or swallowing a tablet of someone else’s stool sounds pretty disgusting. Source: Internet

If you are getting an X-ray with contrast such as barium or iodine, you may be given a liquid to swallow, an injection, or enema with the agent prior to the X-ray. Source: Internet

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