suppository
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By Wednesday evening, only three boxes of generic ibuprofen chewables, two boxes of generic acetaminophen chewables and six boxes of suppository acetaminophen remained.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022
If you do, you'll be given an antifungal prescription like fluconazole, or told to purchase an over-the-counter cream or ointment, or a suppository that's inserted into the vagina.
From US News ● Dec. 22, 2015
He said: "No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom."
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2013
And so I pushed myself, learned to eat and dress and steady a suppository in spastic fingers, to sit and stand and walk.
From Slate ● May 1, 2013
Once a nurse inserted a suppository to loosen his bowels and did not return, although he cramped his finger ringing the buzzer, until after he had soiled his pajamas.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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Humans have been controlling their reproduction for all of recorded history, from ancient Egyptian vaginal suppositories made of animal dung to spermicidal ointments made with cedar and olive oil employed by 4th Century Greeks.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2023
Despite the prohibition in the Hippocratic Oath, gynecological texts were replete with recipes for contraceptive and abortive suppositories.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 11, 2020
Kinder ™ egg suppositories are already responsible for a greater flow of goods annually than the government’s botched Brexit ferry scheme.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2019
She adds that you may benefit from treatment longer than the usual one-week course and compares using boric acid suppositories here to “quite a bomb at the problem.”
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2019
The mucus of the rectum by aloe internally, by clysters and suppositories externally.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin