FECES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does feces mean? 

• FECES (noun)
  The noun FECES has 1 sense:

1. solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

  Familiarity information: FECES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FECES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

BM; dejection; faecal matter; faeces; fecal matter; feces; ordure; stool

Hypernyms ("feces" is a kind of...):

body waste; excrement; excreta; excretion; excretory product (waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "feces"):

dog do; dog shit; dog turd; doggy do (fecal droppings from a dog)

crap; dirt; poop; shit; shite; turd (obscene terms for feces)

droppings; dung; muck (fecal matter of animals)

meconium (thick dark green mucoid material that is the first feces of a newborn child)

melaena; melena (abnormally dark tarry feces containing blood (usually from gastrointestinal bleeding))

 Context examples 

F. varium has been isolated from human feces and sites of infection as well as the intestinal tract of rodents, roaches, and terminates.

(Fusobacterium varium, NCI Thesaurus)

H. filiformis is most often isolated from feces.

(Holdemania filiformis, NCI Thesaurus)

Imodium slows the movement of the muscles in the small intestine to allow more water to be taken out of the feces (waste matter) and more nutrients to be absorbed.

(Imodium, NCI Dictionary)

F. russii has been isolated from both animal and human feces and is associated with human infections particularly those caused by cat and dog bites.

(Fusobacterium russii, NCI Thesaurus)

The resulting complex is eliminated via the feces.

(Ferric Ferrocyanide, NCI Thesaurus)

E. avium has been isolated from chicken feces and is commensal in the human GI tract, but can be pathogenic to humans and in some cases is vancomycin resistant.

(Enterococcus avium, NCI Thesaurus)

Feces is made up of undigested food, bacteria, mucus, and cells from the lining of the intestines.

(Feces, NCI Dictionary)

L. grayi is found in soil and animal feces and generally regarded as nonpathogenic, although infection has been documented in immunocompromised patients.

(Listeria grayi, NCI Thesaurus)

C. amalonaticus is most commonly found in feces, soil, water and sewage and is an opportunistic pathogen causing urinary tract infections, bacteremia and other systemic infections.

(Citrobacter amalonaticus, NCI Thesaurus)

B. megaterium is found in soil and cow feces, associated with food-borne illness, pathogenic to humans and used to produce antimicrobial compounds.

(Bacillus megaterium, NCI Thesaurus)