Crossword clues for defecation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Defecation \Def`e*ca"tion\, n. [L. defaecatio: cf. F. d['e]f['e]cation.]
The act of separating from impurities, as lees or dregs; purification.
(Physiol.) The act or process of voiding excrement.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from Late Latin defecationem (nominative deficatio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin defecare (see defecate). An Old English word for "bowel movement" was arse-gang literally "arse-going."
Wiktionary
n. 1 Act or process#Noun of voiding feces from bowels. 2 Any of several processes for the removal of impurity, or for clarifying various (l/en: materials).
WordNet
Wikipedia
Defecation is the final act of digestion, by which organisms eliminate solid, semisolid, and/or liquid waste material from the digestive tract via the anus.
Humans expel feces with a frequency varying from a few times daily to a few times weekly. Waves of muscular contraction (known as peristalsis) in the walls of the colon move fecal matter through the digestive tract towards the rectum. Undigested food may also be expelled this way, in a process called egestion.
Open defecation, the practice of defecating outside or in public, without using a toilet of any kind, is still widespread in many developing countries, including, for example, in India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Pakistan.
Defecation is a deathgrind side project formed by Righteous Pigs guitarist Mitch Harris and ex- Napalm Death drummer Mick Harris in 1987. Mitch Harris was the guitarist, bassist and vocalist, and Mick Harris was the drummer and vocalist as well, until Mick left the group shortly after their first album Purity Dilution was released.
Usage examples of "defecation".
In October she was kept in bed for two days by abdominal pain, which reappeared in November, and was then associated with pain in micturition and defecation.
He did not miss the defecations of animals and the smells of strange things cooking or overfamiliar things rotting.
Practices such as reserving mornings for defecation and wading out to the ocean to relieve oneself?
Commodes, chastely concealing a chamber-pot for use in a lady's bedroom, might have quite a Gothic air about them, so that the infrequent pleasure of defecation -- the displacement of the Victorian female tappen -- was enhanced by a sense of historical continuity.