Scatology

Definitions: Scatology

Scatology

Noun

1. A preoccupation with scatology.

2. The chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes).

Specialty Definitions: Scatology

Domain	Definitions
Health	The study of the feces; coprology. (references)
Medicine	The study of the faeces; coprology. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Scatology

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Scatology, or coprology, in medicine, biology and paleontology, refers to the study of feces.

In psychology, a scatology is an obsession with excretion or excrement, or the study of such obsessions.

In literature, "scatological" commonly describes indecent works that make particular reference to excretion or excrement, as well as to infantile toilet humour.

Scatology is not to be confused with eschatology, the study of the end of the world.

In the last five years, many US universities have begun offering degree programs in scatology.

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

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Commercial Usage: Scatology

Domain	Title
Books	Call of Human Nature: The Role of Scatology in Modern German Literature (reference) Scatology and Civility in the English-Canadian Novel (Theory/Culture (Cloth)) (reference) Scatology in modern drama (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Scatology [1988 Reissue] [EXTRA TRACKS] [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Usage Frequency: Scatology

"Scatology" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Scatology" is used about 2 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%	2	245,945

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Scatology

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
scatology	74
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Modern Translations: Scatology

Language		Translations for "scatology"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏دراسة البراز. (various references)

Bulgarian		капрология, порнографска литература. (various references)

Danish		skatologi (coprology), koprologi (coprology). (various references)

Dutch		skatologie (coprology), scatologie (coprology), coprologie (coprology). (various references)

French		scatologie. (various references)

German		Skatologie (coprology), Koprologie (coprology). (various references)

Italian		coprologia (coprology). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		スカッシング関数 (scalar, scallop, scalp treatment, scampi, scandium, Scaramouche, scholarship, scull, sculpture, skiing, skunk, squashing function). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		スカトロジー . (various references)

Pig Latin		atologyscay

Portuguese		escatologia (coprology). (various references)

Romanian		scatologie. (various references)

Russian		копрология. (various references)

Spanish		escatología (eschatology). (various references)

Turkish		gübre araştırma bilimi, edebiyatta müstehcenliği arama. (various references)

Ukranian		копрологія. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự nghiên cứu phân hoá thạch sự nghiên cứu văn học dâm ô tục tĩu. (various references)
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Misspellings: Scatology

Misspellings
	"Scatology" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: escathology, escatology, escgatology, scatalogy, skatology. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Scatology

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-g-l-o-o-s-t-y"
	-2 letters: cytosol, galoots.
	-3 letters: cloots, cologs, costal, costly, galoot, gloats, octyls, oocyst, otalgy.
	-4 letters: acyls, altos, ascot, calos, clags, clast, clays, clogs, cloot, clots, cloys, coals, coaly, coast, coats, colas, colog, colts, cools, cooly, coots, costa, gaols, gloat, glost, goals, goats, goosy, locos, logos, loots, lotas, lotos, octal, octyl, ology, salty, scaly, scoot, slaty, sooty, sotol, stagy, stogy, stool, tacos, talcs, togas, tolas, tools, toyos, yogas.
	-5 letters: acts, acyl, agly, also, alto, alts, cagy, calo, cast, cats, cays, clag, clay, clog, clot, cloy, coal, coat, cogs, cola, cols, colt, coly, cool, coos, coot, cost, cosy, cots, coys, cyst, gals, gaol, gast, gats, gays, goal, goas, goat, goos, goys, lacs, lacy, lags, last, lats, lays, loca, loco, logo, logs, logy, loos, loot, lost, lota, lots, oast, oats, ocas, oots, sago, sagy, salt, scag, scat, scot, slag, slat, slay, slog, slot, sola, solo, soot, soya, stag, stay, stoa, taco, tags, talc, taos, toga, togs, tola, tool, toyo, toys, yoga.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-g-l-o-o-s-t-y"
	+2 letters: eschatology.
	+3 letters: contagiously.
	+4 letters: dactylologies, glycosylation, proteoglycans, zygodactylous.
	+5 letters: astrologically, glycosylations, histologically, metapsychology.
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