A small, usually cone-shaped medicine that is inserted into the rectum or vagina to deliver medication into the body.
From Late Latin 'suppositorium,' from 'suppositus' (placed under), from 'supponere' (to place under). The medical use emerged in the Middle Ages as an alternative to taking medicine by mouth.
Suppositories are actually genius medicine delivery—they bypass your stomach acid and the 'first-pass metabolism' of your liver, making them far more effective for some drugs than swallowing a pill, though they'll never be popular.
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