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Definition of Faeces

1. Noun. Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels.

Definition of Faeces

1. Noun. (U.K.) Solid or semi-solid waste material from the digestive process of an animal, discharged through the bowels; excrement. ¹

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Definition of Faeces

1. feces [n] : FAECAL [adj] - See also: feces

Medical Definition of Faeces

1. The excrement discharged from the intestines, consisting of bacteria, cells exfoliated from the intestines, secretions, chiefly of the liver and a small amount of food residue. Origin: L. Faeces, pl. Of faex = refuse This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Faeces

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Medical Times and Gazette (1879)
"In either of these cases you may have obstruction of faeces and all the evil results that I shall presently describe to you. to yon in a former lecture ..."

2. Transactions of the American Pediatric Society by American Pediatric Society (1890)
"The species of bacteria existing in the diarrhoeal faeces of infants. The difference between these bacteria and those found in the healthy faeces of infants ..."

3. Feeding Experiments with Isolated Food-substances by Thomas Burr Osborne, Lafayette Benedict Mendel, Edna Louise Ferry (1911)
"In nearly every instance the occasional addition of a small amount of the faeces from a normally fed rat at once stopped the decline in weight of the ..."

4. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"Virus was recovered from the faeces of some of the pigs between 3 and 9 days, but not from faeces collected from 2 pigs after 13 days (Table 3). ..."

5. The Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Rectum and Anus by Charles Boyd Kelsey (1884)
"The impaction of faeces may be due to several causes, but is most generally a symptom either of intestinal atony in old people or of some paralytic ..."

6. A Manual of Clinical Chemistry, Microscopy, and Bacteriology by Martin Klopstock, Albert Kowarsky (1912)
"Quantity of the faeces.—The daily quantity of the faeces differs widely under ... The amount of the faeces depends upon the quantity and character of the ..."

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