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Definition: Defecation |
DefecationNoun1. The elimination of fecal waste through the anus. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "defecation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Holding must or wine in a vessel until the solid matter has deposited. The term is applied particularly to the clearing of musts before fermenting for white wines. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | The normal process of elimination of fecal material from the rectum. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The rectum acts as a temporary storage facility for the waste material. As the rectal walls expand due to the materials filling it from within, stretch receptors from the nervous system located in the rectal walls stimulate the desire to defecate. If the urge is not acted upon, the material in the rectum is often returned to the colon where more water is absorbed. If defecation is delayed for a prolonged period constipation and hardened feces results.
When the rectum is full the increase in intrarectal pressure forces the walls of the anal canal apart allowing the fecal matter to enter the canal. The rectum shortens as material is forced into the anal canal and peristaltic waves propel the feces out of the rectum. The internal and external sphincters of the anus allow the feces to be passed by muscles pulling the anus up over the exiting feces.
During defecation the chest muscles, diaphragm, abdominal wall muscles, and pelvic diaphragm all exert pressure on the digestive tract and respiration temporarily ceases as the lungs push the chest diaphragm down in order to exert pressure. Blood pressure rises throughout the body and the amount of blood pumped by the heart decreases. Death has been known to occur in cases where defecation causes the blood pressure to rise enough to cause the rupture of an aneurysm or to dislodge blood clots (see thrombosis).
Defecation may be involuntary or under voluntary control. Loss of control may be caused by bodily injuries, pain, fear, a change in temperature, and psychological or neurological factors. See fecal incontinence for a discussion of this.
See also toilet.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Defecation."
Synonyms: DefecationSynonyms: laxation (n), shitting (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cleanness | Noun: cleanness, cleanliness; Adjective: purity; cleaning; Verb: purification, defecation; Verb: purgation, lustration; detersion, abstersion; epuration, mundation; ablution, lavation, colature; disinfection; Verb: drainage, sewerage. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Defecation |
| English words defined with "defecation": bedpan, BM, bowel movement ♦ can, chamberpot, commode, continent, crapper ♦ dump ♦ encopresis ♦ incontinence, incontinency, incontinent ♦ movement ♦ pot, potty ♦ stool ♦ throne, thunder mug, toilet. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "defecation": Defecography ♦ Proctocolectomy, Restorative. (references) |
| "Defecation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Defecation" is used about 66 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 66 | 41,290 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "defecation": defecation reflex. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
defecation | 13 |
defecation picture | 3 |
painful defecation | 3 |
defecation japanese | 2 |
defecation pain | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "defecation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zbrazje (depletion, discharge, dumping, emptying, evacuation, motion, pour), pastrim (abrasion, abstersion, clarification, clean, cleaning, cleanup, clearance, depuration, lustration, mopping, purge, purification, rectification, refinement, refining, scour, scouring, scrub, scrub up, sweep), kullim (clearing, drainage, dribble, exudation, filtration, infiltration, seepage), jashtëqitje (dejection, excrement, excreta, faeces, ordure). (various references) | |
Arabic | تغوط (defecate, dejection, evacuate, evacuation, motion, movement, pass, pass water, pooh), تصفية (close out, combing, filtering, filtrate, filtration, go into liquidation, liquidation, refinement), ترويق. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | изхвърляне на изпражнения. (various references) | |
Chinese | '粪 (Defecate, Defecated, Defecating). (various references) | |
Czech | vyprázdnìní se. (various references) | |
Danish | defaecation (dejection), defækation (defaecation, evacuation of bowels), defæcatio (defaecation), debourbage (settling), hovedkalkning (main liming), fjernelse af mostens urenheder (settling), afføring (evacuation of bowels). (various references) | |
Dutch | diachorsis (evacuation of bowels), diachorese (evacuation of bowels), dejectio (dejection), dejectie (dejection), defecatie (defaecation), defaecatio (evacuation of bowels), stoelgang (defaecation, evacuation of bowels), klaren (accomplish, achieve, finish), hoofdkalking (main liming), evacuatie (evacuation). (various references) | |
Farsi | تخلیه شکم , خروج مدفوع . (various references) | |
Finnish | ulostus (defaecation, expulsion). (various references) | |
French | défécation (defaecation). (various references) | |
German | Stuhlgang (bowel movement, dejection, motion, stool). (various references) | |
Greek | απέκκριση (excretion), αφόδευση (defaecation, dejection, evacuation of bowels), διαύγαση (clarification, clearing, fining, plaining, refining, settling). (various references) | |
Hebrew | יציא" (departure, exit, expense, going out), עשית צרכים, "לוך מעים (diarrhoea). (various references) | |
Hungarian | székelés (motion, movement), széklet (doo-doo, stool), leszűrés (decantation, decanting), derítés (clarification, tonedown), defekáció, belek kiürítése. (various references) | |
Italian | evacuazione (evacuation). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "便 (urination), '便 , 快便 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かいべ" (eloquence), ようべ" (urination), はいべ". (various references) | |
Korean | 배변. (various references) | |
Manx | keckey (defecate, dung, dunging, excrete, excretion), jannoo keck (defecate, dung), cackey (defecate). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | efecationday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | defecação (clarification, defaecation, dejection, evacuation of bowels, settling). (various references) | |
Romanian | defecare, purificare (calcination). (various references) | |
Russian | испражнение (evacuation, excrement, faeces, feces). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | čišćenje (cleaning, cleansing, cleanup, purification, sweep, sweeping). (various references) | |
Spanish | defecación (defaecation, dejection, evacuation of bowels, settling). (various references) | |
Swedish | sedimentering (accretion, deposit, sediment, sedimentation, settling), avföring (cancelling, evacuation, excretion, faeces, feces, movement, passage, removal, stool). (various references) | |
Turkish | dışkılama (evacuation), kaka yapma, büyük aptes yapma. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | випорожнення (evacuation, stool), освітлення (clarification, illumination, irradiation, lighting), очищення (abstersion, calcination, clarification, cleaning, clearance, depuration, elimination, evacuation, expurgation, filtering, purgation, purge), дефекація. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự lọc (clarification, filtration, refinement), sự l m trong sự đi ỉa, sự gạn (decantation), sự đi tiêu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "defecation": defecations. (additional references) | |
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"Defecation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: defacation, defication, delecation, desecation, d'execution, diffiation, dification, edfication. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "defecation" (pronounced 'Def`e*ca"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-f-i-n-o-t" | |
-1 letter: defection. | |
-2 letters: anecdote, catenoid, defiance, infected. | |
-3 letters: acetone, aconite, codeina, codeine, confide, ctenoid, defiant, deontic, enacted, enfaced, enticed, faceted, faciend, faction, factoid, faience, fainted, fancied, feinted, fiancee, noticed, tacnode. | |
-4 letters: acetin, acnode, action, aedine, aeonic, anodic, anteed, atoned, atonic, cadent, canoed, canted, cation, cenote, centai, cetane, coated, coatee, codeia, codein, coedit, coifed, coined, confit. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-f-i-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: affectioned, defecations. | |
+2 letters: fianchettoed. | |
+3 letters: confederating, confederation, confederative. | |
+4 letters: confederations, decaffeination. | |
+5 letters: decaffeinations, decertification, desertification, noncertificated. | |
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