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FECES

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

Synonyms:

BM; dejection; faecal matter; faeces; fecal matter; feces; ordure; stool

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("feces" is a kind of...):

body waste; excrement; excreta; excretion; excretory product (waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "feces"):

dog do; dog shit; dog turd; doggy do (fecal droppings from a dog)

crap; dirt; poop; shit; shite; turd (obscene terms for feces)

droppings; dung; muck (fecal matter of animals)

meconium (thick dark green mucoid material that is the first feces of a newborn child)

melaena; melena (abnormally dark tarry feces containing blood (usually from gastrointestinal bleeding))

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 Context examples: 

A. cryaerophilus has been isolated from the reproductive tract, feces and milk from animals and may be pathogenic in both animals and humans.

(Arcobacter cryaerophilus, NCI Thesaurus)

Intriguingly, all of the more than 100 Bacillus isolates they had recovered from the human feces efficiently inhibited that system.

(Study finds probiotic Bacillus eliminates Staphylococcus bacteria, National Institutes of Health)

B. faecis was originally isolated from human feces.

(Bacteroides faecis, NCI Thesaurus)

Abnormally dark tarry feces containing blood, usually due to gastrointestinal bleeding or swallowed maternal blood in neonates.

(Melena Neonatorum, NCI Thesaurus)

It's also called stool or feces.

(Bowel Movement, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

E. rhusiopathiae is found in a variety of host animals including fish and swine as well as in feces and sewage.

(Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, NCI Thesaurus)

Abnormally dark tarry feces containing blood, usually from gastrointestinal bleeding.

(Melena, NCI Thesaurus)

It is highly contagious and usually contracted through close contact with an infected individual or their feces, contaminated food or water.

(Hepatitis A Infection, NCI Thesaurus)

Deferoxamine chelates iron from intra-lysosomal ferritin and siderin forming ferrioxamine, a water-soluble chelate excreted by the kidneys and in the feces via the bile.

(Deferoxamine, NCI Thesaurus)

C. celatum is part of the normal flora of the gastrointestinal tract and has been isolated from clinically normal human feces.

(Clostridium celatum, NCI Thesaurus)