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[fee-seez]

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noun (used with a plural verb)

waste matter discharged from the intestines through the anus; excrement.

dregs; sediment.

Also, especially British, faeces.

Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English < Latin faecēs grounds, dregs, sediment (plural of faex)

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Feces is always a great word to know.

So is zedonk. Does it mean:

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.

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The muscles of the intestines forget how to move stool or feces on their own.

Couldn't stand the idea of putting feces in my washing machine.

Feces is greasy, loaded in bacteria and is toxic to handle.

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The muscles of the intestines forget how to move stool or feces on their own.

Couldn't stand the idea of putting feces in my washing machine.

Feces is greasy, loaded in bacteria and is toxic to handle.

By the time they reach the slaughterhouse, they're covered with feces and crowded together.

Mice were trained to identify feces from bird flu-infected ducks by smell.

Good thing, too, as it's one of the compounds that gives human feces its odor.

Protect children's play areas from cat and dog feces.

Zoologists will generally limit the term scat to feces of mammals.

From then on it's been mostly akin to trans-Himalayan great apes flinging feces at each other.

The feces are moved into the rectum to await expulsion.

The fungi project their spores away from the resident dung because cows will not eat near feces.

The resemblance to real feces was striking, but his concoction got moldy and mushy too fast.

The important factor in getting the disease is walking where people who have hookworm have made feces.

The attic was covered in pigeon feces and mites and pigeons were getting stuck and dying inside the walls of the house.

In one instance, ancient human feces even seem to contain traces of digested human tissue.

So the feces get into the food or water supplies, though mainly the water.

The eggs are deposited via feces into water and picked up by fish, in whom the parasites mature.

After vaccination, the virus is known to shed in the baby's feces.

Researchers believe ants become infested after eating bird feces contaminated with the eggs.

Infected cats shed millions of their oocysts in their feces.

The animated sci-fi flick flushes viewers into a futuristic world powered entirely by human feces.

The floors in the living room and foyer were covered with animal feces.

Taguchi explained that the adorable animals have unusual feces full of trash-devouring bacteria.

These by-products are waste materials and usually leave the body via the urine or feces.

The results were disastrous, and the chamber was splattered with feces.

Improved facilities for feces disposal have decreased the incidence of whipworm.

For the birds, removing the nestlings' feces likely helps prevent parasites from infesting the crowded nests.

Apparently, nature designed them to expel feces from the body.

But dog feces and urine should not be found on our sidewalks.

The fox tapeworm is spread to humans in canine feces and can cause a fatal disease of the liver known as alveolar echinococcosis.

Seals are not ideal beach companions for humans, with the partly eaten fish, the feces and the wild smell that accompanies them.

Infected birds secrete the influenza virus through their saliva, nasal secretions and feces.

Near the warren of cells that smelled of feces and vomit, the woman did not quite believe what was happening.

Wildlife biologists make a living by locating feces of endangered species-treasure troves of information about the density.

Fossilized feces are small snapshots of the lives of.

The researchers found that the feces were sometimes infected with the nematode eggs.

So the university world is divided into people whose feces doesn't stink, and those whose does.

The adults carry the feces home to the colony to feed the larvae.

But frequently untreated human feces harvested from latrines is delivered to farms.

In microgravity, urine forms floating spheres and feces have no force to separate them from the buttocks.

The parasite eggs came out in the chicken feces unscathed, he noted.

Pregnant women are often told to steer clear of all contact with cats and cat feces to avoid exposure to the disease.

Methodically measuring his feces volume to test how well his nutritional supplements were working.

Instead, the plants get their nutrients from the bat droppings, absorbing the feces and urine for nitrogen.

The virus is found in the urine and feces of deer mice and some other rodents.

Water is reabsorbed into the body while the feces are moved into the rectum to await expulsion.

She's even picked up a nasty habit of eating her own feces.

She had feces shoved in her face and mouth so she wasn't sure she would live, drowning in a patient's feces.

If you aren't allergic to dust mites, forget the urban horror stories about tumbleweeds of mite feces blowing through your home.

Then tests confirmed that the infection-causing bacteria were not from skin but from feces.

Its cysts are discharged in the feces and contagion is usually by contaminated water.

Researchers also picked up feces from the forest floor.

Gases produced by the pigs' urine and feces corrode metal, he explains.

It usually is transmitted to humans who eat food contaminated with animal feces.

The remaining waste matter is converted to feces through bacterial action.

The apples may have been contaminated on the ground by deer feces or during the cider production.

Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome is a severe respiratory infection spread by rodent urine, feces or saliva.

Greenwood arrived at work to find that someone had gone into his locker and stuffed human feces into his work boots.

Graham and colleagues sampled sheep feces to count parasites and drew blood from the sheep to measure antibody productivity.

In an epidemic, the source is usually the feces of an infected person.

The bacteria in feces contain an enzyme, urease, that breaks down urea in urine into carbon dioxide and ammonia.

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World English Dictionary

faeces or esp (US) feces (ˈfiːsiːz)

—*pl n*
	bodily waste matter derived from ingested food and the secretions of the intestines and discharged through the anus

[C15: from Latin faecēs, plural of faex sediment, dregs]

feces or esp (US) feces

—*pl n*

[C15: from Latin faecēs, plural of faex sediment, dregs]

feces (ˈfiːsiːz)

—*pl n*
	the usual US spelling of faeces

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Word Origin & History

feces

mid-15c., "dregs," from L. faeces "sediment, dregs," pl. of faex (gen. faecis) of unknown origin. Specific sense of "human excrement" is from 1630s. Related: Fecal.

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Medical Dictionary

feces fe·ces (fē'sēz)
pl.n.
The matter that is discharged from the bowel during defecation; excrement. Also called stercus.

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Science Dictionary

feces (fē'sēz) Pronunciation Key
Waste matter eliminated from the intestinal tract.

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Cultural Dictionary

feces [(fee-seez)]

Excrement; the waste material that is passed to the outside from the rectum through the anus.

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"Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements."

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