suppository
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- noun
- /səˈpɒzɪtəri/
- Specialized
- Many parents find that using a suppository is an effective way to administer medication to children who refuse to take pills.
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Watch on YouTubeSo she prescribed me some suppositories.
- So she prescribed me some suppositories.
- You need some really sharp treatment, aquinine or artesunate treatment, injectable or a Suppository perhaps.
- That's how good the BBQ suppositories are.
- Quit taking this and this and this pill and this and injections, doing this and that, the Suppository just to feel something.
Examples
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One benefit of acetaminophen is that it does come in rectal suppositories for a child who cannot swallow oral medications or one who is vomiting.
Academic text (2007) -
Patients with sluggish bowel emptying may need assistance from a laxative regimen consisting of a stool softener and a stimulant suppository as needed.
Academic text (2005) -
And as for you, you may apply it as a suppository.
Fiction book (2000) -
Garlic will likely also be put to use as a suppository.
Blog text (20) -
What you have there are suppositories.
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A bowel program may also include the use of suppositories or mini enemas.
Academic text (2004) -
Doctor, she's taking Dulcolax suppositories, and nothing's moving.
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If swallowing is difficult or vomiting persists, morphine can be given per rectally by suppository (same dose as PO).
Academic text (2007) -
For constipation relief, the doctor recommended using a suppository that would dissolve in the rectum.
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After the procedure, the nurse inserted a suppository to ease the patient's discomfort.
Surface Forms
Morphology
suppository = suppose (opaque) = supposit + ory
Although the combining form 'supposit-' is historically related to 'suppose', the modern meaning of 'suppository' (a medication inserted into a body cavity) cannot be derived from the common verb 'suppose' and the affix -ory is attached to a Latin stem rather than a productive English base.
Etymology
Suppository comes from Latin parts sub- 'under' and ponere 'to put', the same root you see in position. So a suppository is something 'put inside' or 'put under' the body to give medicine, which is why it is meant to be inserted into the rectum or vagina.