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A member asked:

What's the name of the liquid that doctors insert in your anus when you're constipated?

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Dr. Axel Martinez-Irizarry answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

Enema: If it's the pill it's called suppositories, but usally liquids are known as enemas, they come in different varieties.

Dr Munshower and another doctor agreed

Answered 6/26/2014

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