Feces
noun
Waste material from the body that is excreted through the anus after digestion.
The doctor will need a sample of your feces for the test.
Often appears as...
- sample of feces
- excreted feces
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Formal
Technical
noun
Any kind of waste or unwanted material.
The factory dumped feces into the river, causing pollution.
Often appears as...
- environmental feces
- industrial feces
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Formal
noun
Waste material from the body that is excreted through the anus after digestion.
The doctor will need a sample of your feces for the test.
Often appears as...
- sample of feces
- excreted feces
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
noun
Any kind of waste or unwanted material.
The factory dumped feces into the river, causing pollution.
Often appears as...
- environmental feces
- industrial feces
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Body Function
Feces specifically refers to waste from digestive processes, suitable for medical or biological discussions.
The patient's feces were examined for parasites.
Pro Tip 2/3Polite Term
Although a clinical term, it's more polite than 'poo' or 'shit' when discussing bowel movements.
Please clean up after your dog's feces.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Solid
Feces can be solid or liquid, indicating different health conditions when discussing symptoms.
Diarrhea is the passing of liquid feces frequently.
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The strange politics of...
Those probably made a lot of you in the audience feel very, very disgusted, but if you didn't look, I can tell you about some of the other things that have been shown sort of across the world to make people disgusted, things like feces, urine, blood, rotten flesh. These are the sorts of things that it makes sense
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The coolest animal you...
And you see, this is very, very unfortunate because tapirs are extremely important for the habitats where they are found. They're herbivores. Fifty percent of their diet consists of fruit, and when they eat the fruit, they swallow the seeds, which they disperse throughout the habitat through their feces.
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A lesson in turning...
living on their own feces, breathing ammonia-laden air. And when chickens get sick, some of them die. And you don't get paid for dead chickens, and Craig started to struggle to pay off his loan, he realized he made a mistake, but he was all but an indentured servant at this stage.
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What we know (and don't...
Fortunately, while Ebola is highly virulent, several factors limit its contagiousness. Unlike viruses that proliferate through small, airborne particles, Ebola only exists in bodily fluids, such as saliva, blood, mucus, vomit, or feces. In order to spread,
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For the Love of Jaguars...
urine, feces in the scrape, urine in the scrape, feces next to the scrape, they have a whole language of how they communicate. And I could see jaguars probably have the most powerful jaws of any cat in the world. Now that's been proven that jaguars
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How parasites change...
that needs both cats and rodents to complete its life cycle. When a rat gets infected by eating cat feces, the parasite changes chemical levels in the rat's brain, making it less cautious around the hungry felines, maybe even attracted to them.
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Is there a disease that...
To understand why, let's take a look at the parasite's life cycle. While the parasite can multiply in practically any host, it can only reproduce sexually in the intestines of cats. The offspring, called oocysts, are shed in the cat's feces.
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Asha de Vos: Why you...
As they do so, they transport fertilizer in the form of their feces from places that have it to places that need it. So clearly, whales are really important in nutrient cycling, both horizontally and vertically, through the oceans.
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What happens to people...
like banging their heads on the walls of their cells or smearing themselves with feces. Or attempting suicide, some of them successfully. Many people cut themselves just to feel the pain that keeps them tethered to the real world.
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Why We Need To Talk Shit...
system deep underground that will deal with it this very absence of and our conscious lives can be seen in the absence of any adequate word with which to discuss it feces excreta turds poop doo-doo unless you are talking to a
Video examples
The strange politics of...
Those probably made a lot of you in the audience feel very, very disgusted, but if you didn't look, I can tell you about some of the other things that have been shown sort of across the world to make people disgusted, things like feces, urine, blood, rotten flesh. These are the sorts of things that it makes sense
Video examples
The coolest animal you...
And you see, this is very, very unfortunate because tapirs are extremely important for the habitats where they are found. They're herbivores. Fifty percent of their diet consists of fruit, and when they eat the fruit, they swallow the seeds, which they disperse throughout the habitat through their feces.
Video examples
A lesson in turning...
living on their own feces, breathing ammonia-laden air. And when chickens get sick, some of them die. And you don't get paid for dead chickens, and Craig started to struggle to pay off his loan, he realized he made a mistake, but he was all but an indentured servant at this stage.
Video examples
What we know (and don't...
Fortunately, while Ebola is highly virulent, several factors limit its contagiousness. Unlike viruses that proliferate through small, airborne particles, Ebola only exists in bodily fluids, such as saliva, blood, mucus, vomit, or feces. In order to spread,
Video examples
For the Love of Jaguars...
urine, feces in the scrape, urine in the scrape, feces next to the scrape, they have a whole language of how they communicate. And I could see jaguars probably have the most powerful jaws of any cat in the world. Now that's been proven that jaguars
Video examples
How parasites change...
that needs both cats and rodents to complete its life cycle. When a rat gets infected by eating cat feces, the parasite changes chemical levels in the rat's brain, making it less cautious around the hungry felines, maybe even attracted to them.
Video examples
Is there a disease that...
To understand why, let's take a look at the parasite's life cycle. While the parasite can multiply in practically any host, it can only reproduce sexually in the intestines of cats. The offspring, called oocysts, are shed in the cat's feces.
Video examples
Asha de Vos: Why you...
As they do so, they transport fertilizer in the form of their feces from places that have it to places that need it. So clearly, whales are really important in nutrient cycling, both horizontally and vertically, through the oceans.
Video examples
What happens to people...
like banging their heads on the walls of their cells or smearing themselves with feces. Or attempting suicide, some of them successfully. Many people cut themselves just to feel the pain that keeps them tethered to the real world.
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Why We Need To Talk Shit...
system deep underground that will deal with it this very absence of and our conscious lives can be seen in the absence of any adequate word with which to discuss it feces excreta turds poop doo-doo unless you are talking to a
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Billy Idol
British Musician
I'm not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces, I'm rolling in the feces of my greatest hits - that's a bit of a wild way of looking at it, but I am a man, and we do like rolling in our own feces at times.
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Rose George
British Journalist
Diarrhea, 90 percent of which is caused by food and water contaminated by excrement, kills a child every fifteen seconds. That's more than AIDS, malaria, or measles, combined. Human feces are an impressive weapon of mass destruction.
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Rose George
British Journalist
Of all the peoples of the world, the Chinese are probably the most at home with their excrement. They know its value. For 4,000 years they have used raw human feces to fertilize fields.
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Kyle Hill
American Author
Bigfoot does not exist because there would be evidence left behind - hair, feces, bones, kills, offspring, a carcass - if it did.
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Billy Idol
British Musician
I'm not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces, I'm rolling in the feces of my greatest hits - that's a bit of a wild way of looking at it, but I am a man, and we do like rolling in our own feces at times.
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Rose George
British Journalist
Diarrhea, 90 percent of which is caused by food and water contaminated by excrement, kills a child every fifteen seconds. That's more than AIDS, malaria, or measles, combined. Human feces are an impressive weapon of mass destruction.
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Rose George
British Journalist
Of all the peoples of the world, the Chinese are probably the most at home with their excrement. They know its value. For 4,000 years they have used raw human feces to fertilize fields.
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Kyle Hill
American Author
Bigfoot does not exist because there would be evidence left behind - hair, feces, bones, kills, offspring, a carcass - if it did.
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