excrementformal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Animal physiology: excrement & its excretion
accident
anal fissure
bathroom
be caught/taken shortidiom
bodily function
bowel
cowpat
defecate
dog dirt
dunghill
excrement
excrete
go to the bathroomidiom
motion
movement
pass
poo
poop
regular
stool

Examples from literature

All excreta which cannot be burned is buried so that it cannot be reached by flies. 
Excreta is the most deadly form of waste, and too much care cannot be exercised in disposing of it. 
In a case of suspected typhoid fever the examination of serum, blood and excreta would be necessary to determine whether the case were really typhoid or not. 
In both cases a physiological test of the excreta will give accurate information. 
The appearance of the excreta rather recently left by a bird on a leaf is well known. 

Examples of excreta

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Most sanitation systems for human excreta are on-site facilities, including latrines, non-sewered public toilets and septic tanks.
Damage to tobacco is caused by the insect larvae that eat stored leaves and contaminate the product with excreta and body oils.
An estimate of the prevalence of infection in rabbits and their excreta is also reported.
Few studies have investigated either the level of faecal contamination by rabbits on farms with a paratuberculosis problem, or the potential infectivity of rabbit excreta.
Fleas in the act of feeding frequently eject excreta which may be loaded with the flagellates in the infective stage.
Some elephant seals also occur on the island outside the breeding/moulting period but excreta production at that period has not been measured.
He therefore concluded that the mode of infection is contaminative through the tick's excreta and not active through its proboscis.
Humans are thought to be infected by inhalation of aerosolized rodent excreta.
The silken gallery is thick and studded with numerous pellets of excreta and food grains.
Transmission of bacteria by ingestion of flies or their excreta may be possible even after the flies are dead and dried out.
Infection occurs through the infected saliva of the bug introduced in the act of biting, but the bug's excreta are also infective when fresh.
The cysts or spores in the excreta were treated in the same way.
Pathogens associated with diseases such as paratuberculosis, salmonella and cryptosporidiosis are present in wild rodent and bird excreta.
Pits within each of these areas were > 100 m apart and were cleaned daily to remove ox excreta.
All the reference subjects worked in the clean areas of the plants and none were exposed to livestock or their excreta.
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