(a.) Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.
(v. t.) To clear from impurities, as lees, dregs, etc.; to clarify; to purify; to refine.
(v. t.) To free from extraneous or polluting matter; to clear; to purify, as from that which materializes.
(v. i.) To become clear, pure, or free.
(v. i.) To void excrement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stool weights, defecation frequencies, and transit times in this group are much closer to those of westernized whites than to rural blacks.
(2) Some 300 million women and girls are forced to defecate outside, exposed not only to the risks of disease and bacterial infection, but also harassment and assault by men.
(3) Giant migrating contractions associated with defecation were initiated by the highest dose of vasopressin.
(4) Gastrointestinal transit time, frequency of defecation, stool weight, and stool consistency were studied in 12 subjects who were each given fiber supplements containing wheat bran, psyllium gum, a combination of wheat bran and psyllium gum, or a low-fiber control for 2 weeks.
(5) The authors review the literature and their personal experience about the systematic exploration of defecation disorders by anorectal manometry and colpocystodefecography.
(6) A corresponding improvement in handwashing practices before preparing food was noted, although no improvement was observed for defecation and waste disposal practices.
(7) No significant differences were noted between taurine and control groups, either before or after taurine administration or before or after the step-change in inhibition demand, with respect to defecation in the test chamber, daily fluid consumption, body weight or total responses.
(8) and duration of bloodmeal, defecation and first fed of each stage) had a negative influence.
(9) Records from 20 patients on whom defecography and electromyography were performed simultaneously because of defecation disorders were analyzed.
(10) In the open field PCA groups showed hypoactivity and increased defecation up to 30 days after drug administration.
(11) We already knew that water provision alone couldn’t break the cycle of faecal-oral disease transmission because open defecation, poor hygiene, and poorly built latrines are the main sources of faecal contamination in the environment and water, and the real reasons why diarrhoeal diseases persist despite advances in water provision.
(12) Capsaicin-sensitive afferents may be involved in the initiation of certain forms of reflex defecation, although capsaicin-resistant mechanisms are capable of activating the normal excretory function.
(13) The effect of subdiaphragmatic vagotomy on food intake and defecation was studied in guinea pigs.
(14) During 5 days of reflex training the rats of both strains retained a high level of defecation until the end of the test that pointed at the emotional strain unceasing in spite of the automatization of the reflex.
(15) Almost half of India's 1.25 billion people currently defecate in the open.
(16) This study shows that abnormal defecation dynamics and the severity of constipation are predictors for persistence of chronic constipation and encopresis.
(17) Static anal manometry has proved itself a reliable, reproducible and objective assessment of sphincter function in the investigation of disorders of defecation and continence.
(18) The present experiment investigated the opposite effects of synthetic alpha-MSH and Melatonin on acquisition and extinction of a passive avoidance response (PAR) and on emotionality, as indexed by defecation, in the PA box.
(19) Five to 10 min after the drug administration, the camels at both dosages showed lacrimation, salivation, trembling, restlessness, frequent urination and defecation, followed by diarrhea.
(20) The effect of eating on defecation behaviour was investigated in four 20-30 kg pigs.
Faeces
Definition:
(n.pl.) Excrement; ordure; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The faeces of forty-two were examined microscopically for nematode eggs.
(2) Access to human faeces, poor feeding and lack of deworming were also very evident.
(3) 0.5 to 1 gram pure Bismuth per day and person leaves the patients naturally by faeces.
(4) Of a given dose of DDE, 31% was excreted in the faeces as polar metabolites within 14 days, and 3-4% dose as DDE.
(5) Examination of cattle faeces demonstrated that six-month-old calves excreted moderate numbers of N battus eggs in June and July, thus contaminating next season's sheep grazing.
(6) [35S]Cyst(e)ine activity was detected in the faeces, but not in plasma or wool.
(7) At different times after starting feeding or injection, tissues (albumen gland, digestive gland and digestive tube, central nervous system, remainder parts), hemolymph and faeces were analyzed for unchanged 2,2'- or 4,4'-DCB.
(8) Buxtonella sulcata cysts were recovered from the faeces of adult cows on nine commercial dairy farms.
(9) Investigation of the concentration of norfloxacin in the faeces revealed that a substantial fraction of the dose was either absorbed or inactivated by faecal substances.
(10) Enterococcus faecalis was predominant in human and poultry faeces, Streptococcus bovis was typical of the bovine faeces and to a lesser extent also of pig faeces whereas Enterococcus durans, Ent.
(11) 15N excretion in urine and faeces increased in comparable relations in 6 cases of lysine increase levels only.
(12) Twenty-four (82.7%) out of 29 patients suffering from hospital acquired urinary infections by Klebsiella pneumoniae had the same species in their faeces.
(13) In a series of outbreaks of food-poisoning associated with the consumption of cockles, no bacterial pathogens were demonstrable either in faeces of patients or in cockles.
(14) Additionally the excretion of NDEA-F6 and NDBA-F14 in expired air, urine and faeces was studied after oral application to the rat.
(15) Presumably IgG in the gut is partially destroyed before being excreted with faeces.
(16) An experimental model of colonic urinary diversion was performed on male Wistar rats to see if faeces, urine or a faeces and urine mixture produces tumours.
(17) Faecal cultures were established using bovine faeces containing known numbers of eggs from either Oesophagostomum radiatum, Haemonchus placei, Cooperia pectinata or a mixture of all three.
(18) On the basis of previously obtained evidence that Gram-negative bacteria may influence the activity of leukaemia, a study of the composition of the flora, the immune stimulation by the Gram-negative bacteria and the endotoxin concentration in faeces was conducted in patients with low-grade malignant B-cell lymphoma as well as in patients with acute leukaemia.
(19) Rotaviruses and mycoplasma-like particles were observed in the faeces of calves with and without diarrhoea.
(20) The hepta-, hexa- and penta-carboxylic porphyrins found in the faeces of rats poisoned with hexachlorobenzene have been separated by high-pressure liquid chromatography and characterized largely by spectroscopie methods.