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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
feces
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Clearly disturbed, Brown stripped off his clothes and sat in the cell naked, covered with his own feces.
▪ He smeared feces all over himself.
▪ He was obsessed with counting his jaw movements, as well as weighing his feces to see what was being digested.
▪ Here adenosine helps control the tone of the smooth muscles used to propel feces on its way.
▪ However, the lack of bile flow into the intestines will result in neither urobilinogen nor urobilin being found in the feces.
▪ Inside were six small children found living in squalor, the smell of urine and feces permeating the house.
▪ The hospital smelled of ammonia and feces.
▪ This malabsorption results in an excess lipid accumulation in the feces that is known as steatorrhea.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
feces

Faeces \F[ae]"ces\, n. pl. [L. faex, pl. faeces, dregs.] Excrement; ordure; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation. [Written also feces.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
feces

also faeces, c.1400, "dregs," from Latin faeces "sediment, dregs," plural of faex (genitive faecis) "grounds, sediment, wine-lees, dregs," which is of unknown origin. Specific sense of "human excrement" is from 1630s in English but is not found in classical Latin. Hence Latin faex populi "the dregs of the people; the lowest class of society."

Wiktionary
feces

n. digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from the bowels; excrement.

WordNet
feces

n. solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels [syn: fecal matter, faecal matter, faeces, BM, stool, ordure, dejection]

Wikipedia
Feces

Feces or faeces are the solid or semisolid metabolic waste from an animal's digestive tract, discharged through the anus or cloaca during a process called defecation. Urine and feces together are called excreta.

Collected feces has various uses, namely as fertilizer or soil conditioner in agriculture, as a fuel source, or for medicinal purposes (fecal transplants or fecal bacteriotherapy, in the case of human feces).

Usage examples of "feces".

The metal toilet in the cell had backed up, and was filled to the brim with a brown stew of liquid feces and sour, beerish urine.

The destruction of the parts was so complete and the opening so large as to bring into view the whole inner surface of the pelvis, in spite of which, after prolonged suppuration, the wound cicatrized from behind forward and health returned, except as regards the inconvenience of feces and urine.

The abdomen was distended with tympanites and the rectum much dilated with accumulated feces.

Suddenly he is not just sitting there going glub glub glub while examining a piece of his own feces on his own thumb, which is something we recently found our Billy doing.

Sometimes we have felt that our childless friends think badly of us for having a kid who just goes glub glub glub in the corner while looking at his feces on his thumb.

And the pseudo expired there in its cell, complete with the expellation of a pseudo pound of feces that Gordie thought was so much more than appropriate.

We moved on to an interesting discussion of exotic fauna like hoop snakes, snippers, blimps, and the truly disgusting rocket slugs, which dodge predators by expelling feces so violently they shoot into the air and glide great distances.

Zacutus Lusitanus describes an infant with an imperforate membrane over its anus who voided feces through the urethra for three months.

Throughout her fast she had periodic convulsions, and voided no urine or feces for twelve months before her death.

By the time she had Finished cleaning up the mess of vomitus, feces, and urine which her suffering body had voided under his ungentle ministrations, and he had promised, in a soft tone that chilled her very soul, to soon return, it was nearly noon.

By the time she had finished cleaning up the mess of vomitus, feces, and urine which her suffering body had voided under his ungentle ministrations, and he had promised, in a soft tone that chilled her very soul, to soon return, it was nearly noon.

The feces may accumulate in the rectum, because they cannot pass this obstruction.

In a word, the accumulation of feces in the colon irritates both the large and small intestines, thus causing congestion of the bowels, liver, or stomach.

The nauseating odor of urine and feces was overlaid with the sharper scent of the combustible fluid.

Opium impeded the normal peristaltic movements of the bowels, letting feces back up into the large intestine and harden until it was impossible to pass.