Feces

Definition: Feces

Feces

Noun

1. Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels.

Date "feces" was first used: 14th century. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Feces

Domain	Definitions
Health	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. (references)
	The undigested residue of food and other forms of waste matter and alimentary refuse discharged from the bowel during defecation. (references)
Metallurgy	Pig iron with a very high silicon content:7 to 17% Si. Source: European Union. (references)
Multilingual Slang	English (crap , doo-doo, poop, shit). (references)
Slang	Crap, doo-doo, poop, shit, doodoo, doo doo. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Feces

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Feces (also spelt faeces) is the excrement from the digestive tract expelled from the anus of animals by defecation. It consists of water, undigested food residues, digestive secretions, and bacteria. The reddish-brown color of human feces is derived from stercobilin, created by bacterial action on bilirubin and subsequent oxidation.

The word feces comes from the Latin word faex which means "dregs".

Feces are also known as scat and scatology is the study of feces.

Feces are generally a taboo subject (see toilet humour). This is probably because of the need to keep feces well away from food, for health reasons.

Coprophilia is a sexual attraction to feces. Coprophagia is the extremely hazardous practice of eating feces.

Meconium (also spelled merconium) is a newborn baby's first feces, and is normally passed post-partum. There is a danger that aspiration (inhalation) of meconium can occur if it is passed during labor and delivery. Inhaled meconium can cause a partial or complete blockage of the newborn's airways, and the severity depends on the amount of meconium the baby aspirates. Meconium aspiration affects around 20 percent of all newborn babies worldwide.

Laboratory testing of feces

In the medical profession, feces are referred to as stools. This comes from the Anglo-Saxon word stol, which means "seat". The word stool was originally used to describe the seat one sat on to go to the bathroom. So, the expression was that they were "going to stool." By the end of the 16th century, the word stool was used to mean the same thing as feces.

Feces will usually be required for microbiological testing, looking for an intestinal pathogen.

Biochemical tests done on feces include fecal elastase and fecal fat measurements, as well as tests for fecal occult blood.

It is recommended that the clinician correlates the symptoms and submit specimens according to laboratory guidelines to obtain results that are clinically significant. Formed stools often do not give satisfactory results and suggest little of actual pathologic conditions.

Three main types of microbiological tests are commonly done on feces:

Antibody-antigen type tests, that look for a specific virus (e.g. rotavirus).
Microscopic examination for intestinal parasites and their ova (eggs).
Routine culture.

Routine culture involves streaking the sample onto agar plates containing special additives, such as MacConkey's Agar, that will inhibit the growth of Gram positive organisms and will selectively allow enteric pathogens to grow, and incubating them for a period, and observing the bacterial colonies that have grown.

Yellowing of feces can be caused by an infection known as giardia. Giardia are tiny parasitic organisms. If giardia infects the intestines it can cause severe yellow diarrhea. This is a dangerous communicable infection and must be reported.

Another cause of yellowing is a condition known as Gilbert's Syndrome. This condition is characterized by jaundice and hyperbilirubinemia. Hyperbilirubinemia occurs when too much bilirubin is present in the circulating blood.

Feces can be black if dried blood is present in it from a bleed. More active bleeding can lead feces to be red in color.

In children with certain illnesses, Feces can be blue or green. Babies also produce green feces when they are given food for the first time.

The main pathogens that are commonly looked for in feces include:

Salmonella and Shigella
Yersinia (this tends to be incubated at 30°C, which is cooler than usual.)
Campylobacter (incubated at 42°C, in a special environment.)
Aeromonas
Candida (if the person is immunosupressed e.g. cancer treatment.)
E. coli O157 (if blood is visible in the stool sample.)

External links and references

Urobilinogen
Liver biochemistry
History of Shit by Dominique Laporte (ISBN 0262621606)

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Feces."

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Synonyms: Feces

Synonyms: dejection (n), faecal matter (n), faeces (n), fecal matter (n), ordure (n), stool (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Feces

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Uncleanness	Spawn, offal, gurry; lientery; garbage, carrion; excreta; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria; faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit; sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Feces

English words defined with "feces": amebic dysentery, amoebic dysentery ♦ body waste ♦ congenital megacolon, coprolith, coprophagia, coprophagy, costive, crap ♦ defecation reflex, dirt ♦ excrement, excreta, excretion, excretory product ♦ faecal, faecalith, fecal, fecal impaction, fecalith, feculent ♦ Hirschsprung's disease ♦ impaction ♦ large intestine, laxative ♦ meconium, melaena, melena ♦ poop ♦ rectal reflex ♦ Scybala, shit, shite, steatorrhea, stercobilinogen, stercolith ♦ Tagsore, tenesmus, turd ♦ urobilin, urobilinogen. (references)

Specialty definitions using "feces": a load ♦ Bifidobacterium ♦ Carcinoembryonic Antigen, Cholestanol, Cholestanols, Coliform index, Composting Toilet, coprophilia, Coproporphyrins ♦ defaecation, Desulfovibrio, Desulfovibrio vulgaris, Digestive Tract Contents, doo doo, doodoo, doo-doo ♦ Eliminative Behavior, Animal, Enterobacter ♦ Fecal Incontinence, Feces, Impacted ♦ Giardia Lamblia ♦ Hartmannella ♦ ish ♦ Listeria, Listeria monocytogenes ♦ mierda ♦ Pancreatic Function Tests, Picobirnavirus, pooper scooper, pooper-scooper, Prevotella melaninogenica, Providencia, Pseudomonas fluorescens ♦ steatorrhoea ♦ Tylenchoidea ♦ Vibrio parahaemolyticus ♦ Zero tolerance. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Feces" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (deposits, dregs, dregs of society, grounds, lees, sediment).

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Modern Usage: Feces

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

One bucket for urine, one for feces and one for vomitus. (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

How about a dog? Dogs eat their own feces. (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary)

I feel a very real sense that we ought to be wary of running any unsubstansiated stories if we're to avoid a feces and fan situation. (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin)

You know John Wayne died with over 63 pounds of impacted feces in his stomach? (Jackass; writing credit: Donald Spoto; Eric Overmyer)

You'll be the most unpopular robot fighter since Sargeant Feces Processor! (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Feces

Domain	Title
Theater & Movies	Endangered Feces - The Very Worst of The Tom Green Show (reference) Tom Green Show:Endangered Feces (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Origin of The Feces (reference) Origin of the Feces (Gold) [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Image Slideshow: Feces

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Photo Album: Feces

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Eggs of Fasciolopsis buski, Ascaris, Trichuris, and hookworm for size comparison. Unstained mounted formalin-preserved feces. Parasite.Credit: CDC.		Eggs of Ascaris (fertile and infertile) and Trichuris. Unstained mount of formalin-preserved feces. Parasite.Credit: CDC.
	Capillaria philippinensis egg. Unstained mount of formalin-preserved feces. Parasite.Credit: CDC.		Echinostoma eggs. Unstained mount of formalin-preserved feces. Parasite.Credit: CDC.
	Echinostoma egg. Unstained mount of formalin-preserved feces. Parasite.Credit: CDC.		Echinostoma and Ascaris eggs for size comparison. Unstained mount of formalin-preserved feces. Parasite.Credit: CDC.
	This virus enters an organism by ingestion of water and food contaminated by human feces, and reaches the liver through the bloodstream. HAV infection is endemic in third world countries, and is prevalent in the Far East.Credit: CDC.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Feces

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Avoid food that may be contaminated with feces. (references)
		Avoid direct contact with raccoons, especially their feces. (references)
		Diagnosis is based on finding the cyst-like stage in feces. (references)
Human Rights	Brazil	One inmate had feces on his body and infected wounds on his legs and feet. (references)
Women	Nepal	On September 20, police arrested five men in Sirsiya Khalbatol, Parsa, for beating and forcefeeding feces to a 60-year-old widow suspected of witchcraft. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Feces

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
feces	175	color feces human	7
feces green	124	bloody feces	7
blood feces in	50	feces rat	6
color feces	25	feces green human	6
dog eating feces	25	feces impacted	6
black feces	16	feces orange	6
feces human	15	feces green symptom	6
cat feces	12	dark feces	6
dog feces	12	blood dog feces in	5
eating feces	12	feces snake	5
feces yellow	11	eating feces puppy	5
bat feces	10	feces sex	5
feces picture	9	eating feces human	5
animal feces	9	discolored feces	5
feces mouse	8	feces pigeon	4
feces fetish	7	cause feces green	4
feces white	7	bird feces	4
feces and blood	7	bear feces	4
feces racoon	7	blood cat feces in	4
feces smearing	7	feces in mucus	4
		feces raccoon	4
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Modern Translations: Feces

Language		Translations for "feces"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		大便 (excrement, to defecate), 屎 (stool). (various references)

Danish		faeces (dejecta, faeces, stool), fæces (dung, faecal matter, faeces), moeg (dung, faecal matter, faeces), excreter (dejecta), ekskrementer (dung, excrements, excreta, faecal matter, faeces), animalsk goedning (dung, faecal matter, faeces). (various references)

Dutch		feces (dung, faecal matter, faeces, human excrements, human excreta, human faeces, human feces), faeces (dejecta, dung, excrement, faecal matter, faeces, human excrements, human excreta, human faeces, human feces, stool), faecaliën (cesspool, dung, faecal matter, faeces, human excrements, human excreta, human faeces, human feces, night soil, pail closet), uitwerpselen (dejecta, dung, excrement, excrements, excreta, faeces, stool), ontlasting (decongestion, defaecation, dejecta, dung, excrement, faeces, load rejection, load shedding, load throw-off, stool), mest (barn manure, barn yard manure, dressing, dung, faecal matter, faeces, farmyard manure, fertilizer, fold yard manure, manure, muck, stable manure), dejecta (dejecta). (various references)

Finnish		ulosteet (dung, excrement, faecal matter, faeces, stools). (various references)

French		fèces, matières fécales, excréta. (various references)

German		kot (dirt, dung, excrement, faecal matter, faeces, filth, mire, muck, mud, ordure, silt), fäkalien (cesspool, dung, faecal matter, faeces, night soil, pail closet). (various references)

Greek		απεκκρίμματα (dejecta). (various references)

Hungarian		ürülék (defecation, dejecta, dirt, doo-doo, excrement, faeces, turd, waste product). (various references)

Italian		feci (dung, excrement, faecal matter, faeces, stool), escrementi (castings, dejecta, dung, excrement, excrements, excreta, faecal matter, faeces). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		糞便 , 糞 (bullshit, centimeter, droppings, excrement, shit), �" (dregs, refuse, scum), 大便 (excrement, shit). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		くそ (bullshit, excrement, shit), ふ�"べ�", かす (dregs, refuse, scum, to be reduced, to change into, to convert to, to impose, to improve, to influence, to lend, to transform), � いべ�" (act for another, excrement, pay by proxy, shit, speak for another). (various references)

Korean		대변 (Faecal). (various references)

Pig Latin		ecesfay

Portuguese		fezes (dejecta, dregs, dung, excrete, faecal matter, faeces, Lees), excrementos (dejecta, excreta, rejectamenta, shit), excremento (dung, excrement, excrescence, faecal matter, faeces, ordure, rejectamenta). (various references)

Russian		испражнение (defecation, evacuation, excrement, faeces). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		izmet (excrement, faeces, raff). (various references)

Spanish		materias fecales (dung, faecal matter, faeces), heces fecales (dung, faecal matter, faeces), heces (bottoms, dejecta, dregs, dung, faecal matter, faeces, lees, sediment, slop, sweepings), excreta (dejecta, excreta), excremento (dung, excrement, excreta, faecal matter, faeces). (various references)

Swedish		avföring (cancelling, defecation, dung, evacuation, excretion, faecal matter, faeces, movement, passage, removal, stool). (various references)

Thai		อุจจาระ (faeces, ordure). (various references)

Turkmen		bok. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Feces

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	faeces. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Feces

Language	Date	Source	Ezekiel Chapter 23, Verse 34
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai piesai auto kai taV eortaV kai taV neomhniaV authV apostreyw dioti egw lelalhka legei kurioV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Et bibes illum et epotabis usque ad feces et fragmenta eius devorabis et ubera tua lacerabis quia ego locutus sum ait Dominus Deus
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And thou shalt drynke it, and drynke of vn to the drestis, and thou shalt deuoure the relyues of it, and thou shalt to-teere thi breestis, for I spak, seith the Lord God.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Thou shalt even drink it, and empty it to the dregs, and thou shalt break its pieces, and pluck off thy own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And after drinking it and draining it out, you will take the last drops of it to the end, pulling off your breasts: for I have said it, says the Lord.
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Matched Bible Translations: Feces

Language	Ezekiel Chapter 23, Verse 34
Cebuano	Ngani magainum pa ikaw niini ug magati-ti niini, ug ikaw magaingkib sa mga bika niana, ug lungion mo ang kaugalingon mong mga suso: kay ako namulong niini, nagaingon ang Ginoong Jehova.
Croatian	Pit æeš je, do dna iskapiti, zatim u komade razbiti, grudi svoje izraniti. Jer, ja tako rekoh' - rijeè je Jahve Gospoda!
Danish	Du skal drikke det ud til sidste Dråbe, gnave dets Skår og sønderrive dine Bryster, så sandt jeg har talet, lyder det fra den Herre HERREN.
Dutch	Gij zult hem drinken en uitzuigen, en zijn scherven zult gij brijzelen, en uw borsten zult gij afrukken; want Ik heb het gesproken, spreekt de Heere HEERE.
Finnish	Sen sinä juot ja särvit, sen sirpaleita sinä kaluat ja niillä rintasi revit. Sillä minä olen puhunut, sanoo Herra, Herra.
French	Tu la boiras, tu la videras, Tu la briseras en morceaux, Et tu te déchireras le sein. Car j`ai parlé, Dit le Seigneur, l`Éternel.
German	Denselben mußt du rein austrinken, darnach die Scherben zerwerfen und deine Brüste zerreißen; denn ich habe es geredet, spricht der HERR HERR.
Haitian Creole	W'ap bwè tout, w'ap kite l' vid. Lèfini, w'ap kraze l' anba dan ou! Moso yo pral filange tete ou. Se mwen menm, Seyè sèl Mèt la, ki di sa.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka engkau akan minum dan mengisap dia habis dan menjilat tembikarnya dan membelahkan dadamu, karena Aku sudah berfirman begitu, demikianlah firman Tuhan Hua.
Italian	Anche tu la berrai, la vuoterai, ne succhierai i cocci, ti lacererai il seno, poiché io ho parlato». Parola del Signore.
Maori	Ka inumia ano ra e koe, tatau rawa, wawahi rawa i nga maramara, ka hae ano e koe ou u: naku hoki te korero, e ai ta te Ariki, ta Ihowa.
Norwegian	Du skal drikke det ut til siste dråpe, og du skal gnage på dets skår og sønderrive dine bryster; for jeg har talt, sier Herren, Israels Gud.
Rumanian	Kl vei bea wi kl vei goli, ki vei roade cioburile, wi-yi vei sfkwia tkyele. Cqci Eu am vorbit, zice Domnul, Dumnezeu.``
Spanish	La beberás hasta secarla; desmenuzarás sus fragmentos y desgarrarás tus pechos, porque yo he hablado", dice el Señor Jehovah.
Swedish	Du skall nödgas dricka ut den till sista droppen, ja ock slicka dess skärvor, och du skall sarga ditt bröst. Ty jag har talat, säger Herren, HERREN.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "Feces"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "feces" (pronounced fē"sē'z)
3	-s ē' z	analyses, diocese, dioceses, emphases, hypotheses, idiosyncrasies, indices, oversees, parentheses.
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Anagrams: Feces

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-s"
	-1 letter: cees, fees.
	-2 letters: cee, efs, fee, sec, see.
	-3 letters: ef, es.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-f-s"
	+1 letter: faeces, fences, fescue.
	+2 letters: coffees, defaces, defects, effaces, effects, enfaces, fencers, fennecs, fescues, fetches, fleches, fleeces, refaces, refects.
	+3 letters: beflecks, casefied, casefies, chiefest, defacers, defences, deflects, deforces, edifices, effacers, enforces, faceless, faiences, feasance, feckless, fetchers, fetiches, fiancees, fiercest, fleecers, fleeches, flenches, fletches, freckles, frenches, frescoed, frescoer, frescoes, offences, perfects, prefaces, prefects, refences, reflects, unfences.
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