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The chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes)
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scatology
Word definitions for scatology in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The scientific study, or the chemical analysis of faeces. 2 A filthy epithet.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"obscene literature," 1876, with -logy "treatise, study" + Greek skat- , stem of skor (genitive skatos ) "excrement," from PIE *sker- "excrement, dung" (cognates: Latin stercus "dung"), literally "to cut off;" see shear (v.), and compare shit (v.). Related: ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In medicine and biology , scatology or coprology is the study of feces . Scatological studies allow one to determine a wide range of biological information about a creature, including its diet (and thus where it has been ), health and diseases such as tapeworms ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a preoccupation with scatology (medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes)
Usage examples of scatology.
These manga treat topics ranging from rape to incest, to lesbianism, scatology and necrophilia.
Stubborn, that is all it is, the quality of stubbornness but there is nothing devine about it, quite the opposite, there is scatology and the diabolic in her stubbornness, her refusal to break under him.
He was cursing, a steady flat-toned stream of obscenity and scatology, until the painkiller took effect.
They thrived on an intellectual diet of scatology and slapstick and mimicry, picking names for each other gleaned without understanding from popular songs and furniture catalogues and discarded textbooks they could just about read.