fecalia

English

Noun

fecalia pl (plural only)

1. Fecal matter.
   • 1964, Hygiene and Sanitation, page 36:

     At the same time, one of the sources of enteroviruses in the environment are the fecalia and the daily-economic sewage.

   • 1966, Oscar Felsenfeld, The Epidemiology of Tropical Diseases, page 50:

     Unfortunately, fecalia and urine contain many factors favorable for microbial growth, as well as for the life of the snails in which part of the cycle of schistosomes takes place.

   • 1966 April 29, Natural Foci of Transmissible Diseases as Related to Territorial Epidemiology of Zooanthroponoses, page 58:

     When there is a large lice population on underclothing, a patient can be infected with typhus by means of louse fecalia, which dry rapidly; when such articles of clothing are moved or put on, dry louse fecalia are pulverized and readily inhaled by man, leading to inhalational infection with typhus of bronchioli.

   • 1980, Human Settlements in the Arctic: An Account of the ECE Symposium on Human Settlements Planning and Development in the Arctic, Godthåb, Greenland, 18-25 August 1978, page 60:

     Development work is now in progress on this type of toilet aimed at the separation of fecalia and urine and separate treatment of these two types of waste.

   • 1992, Canadian Journal of Microbiology, page 1052:

     Diseased and dead fish in the pens, together with fecalia and uneaten food, will also release lipid droplets.