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Answer for the clue "The elimination of fecal waste through the anus ", 10 letters:
defecation

Word definitions for defecation in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in 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 ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the elimination of fecal waste through the anus [syn: laxation , shitting ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in 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).

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in 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."

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in 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.

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.