Word Meanings - SUPPOSITOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An apparatus for the introduction of suppositories into the rectum.

Related words: (words related to SUPPOSITOR)

• INTRODUCTION
  1. The act of introducing, or bringing to notice. 2. The act of formally making persons known to each other; a presentation or making known of one person to another by name; as, the introduction of one stranger to another. 3. That part of a book
• RECTUM
  The terminal part of the large intestine; -- so named because supposed by the old anatomists to be straight. See Illust. under Digestive.
• APPARATUS
  A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus. (more info) 1. Things provided as means to some end. 2. Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or
• LATUS RECTUM
  The line drawn through a focus of a conic section parallel to the directrix and terminated both ways by the curve. It is the parameter of the principal axis. See Focus, and Parameter.
• MESORECTUM
  The fold of peritoneum, or mesentery, attached to the rectum. -- Mes`o*rec"tal, a.
• BUFFING APPARATUS
  See 1