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Definition of Fecal matter
1. Noun. Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels.
Specialized synonyms: Dog Do, Dog Shit, Dog Turd, Doggy Do, Crap, Dirt, Poop, Shit, Shite, Turd, Droppings, Dung, Muck, Meconium, Melaena, Melena
Generic synonyms: Body Waste, Excrement, Excreta, Excretion, Excretory Product
Derivative terms: Fecal, Faecal, Stool
Definition of Fecal matter
1. Noun. Feces, excrement. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fecal Matter
| febrile urine febrile urticaria febrilities febrility febris febris undulans februate februated februates februating | februation februations feceated feceates feceating fecht fechter fechters |
Literary usage of Fecal matter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1899)
"The fecal matter in the tubs was always exposed to flies, the contents were ...
The third division disposed of its fecal matter in pits, as is ordinarly ..."
2. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"... of fecal matter.—The basic principle that underlies all methods of sewage
disposal is to get rid of the sewage as speedily as possible, with the least ..."
3. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1899)
"In most of the camps fecal matter was deposited in pits. Flies swarmed over the
infected fecal matter and then walked over the food at the mess tents. ..."
4. A Text-book on surgery by John Allan Wyeth (1890)
"Partial or complete occlusion of the alimentary canal may occur from a variety
of causes, namely: 1, impaction of fecal matter; 2, foreign bodies; 3, ..."
5. The London Medical Gazette (1850)
"... fecal matter was coning away from the opening made to relieve the stricture.
On May 1, the powers of the patient had begun to gire way ; she wa.s ..."
6. On slight ailments: Their Nature and Treatment by Lionel Smith Beale (1880)
"Constipation with Impaction of fecal matter in the Large Intestine. ... In old
age an accumulation of fecal matter very often goes on for a long period of ..."
7. Typhoid Fever; Its Causation, Transmission and Prevention by George Chandler Whipple (1908)
"The pollution of the water of lakes from steamboats passing near a water-works
intake, and the scattering of fecal matter along the road-bed of a railroad, ..."
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