(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.
Poo
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) We may as well get some preschoolers to call each other poo-heads and be done with it."
(2) The results of the Stamey endoscopic cervicopexy modified procedure (Orozco-Pérez Poo) performed in 20 incontinent female patients are analyzed relative to urethrovesical prolapse, length of urethra, position and mobility of the vesical neck and base, diameter of the proximal urethra, and the configuration of the vesicoureteric junction, including the posterior angle.
(3) Photograph: Sanergy Uncertain about an organisation profiting from poo?
(4) My youngest texts me to tell me that I am "an ungrateful poo" and I can see why.
(5) "People want recognition that they have a perfect life or, if you're me, that you're not the only person who has to clean your children's poo off the floor."
(6) Inaperisone injection into the LCa or the PoO had no influence on reflex micturition.
(7) According to Sarah Rizk, co-founder of the technology, Vorpal , a cow’s poo can pasteurise 10 times the amount of milk it produces.
(8) When linked to a generator the poo can produce electricity.
(9) But there is arguably nothing on either list to rival the yuck factor of one of last year's crop – the Doggie Doo , a plastic dog that poos out plasticine.
(10) Though predictable, it made for entertainment infinitely more satisfying than “drinking the poo of many animals”.
(11) 2005 A student on the Seoul subway refuses to clean up after her dog and is vilified as ‘dog poo girl’ after a photo goes viral.
(12) I suspect you would have said that even it wasn’t a pile of poo,” Lidington observed disconsolately.
(13) A cousin's offering merits a five-second sniff, but should a stranger from outside the group poo here, a family member will linger over it for twice as long.
(14) Treatment of muscle cell cultures with neuraminidase changes the cell surface charge and has been reported to reverse the direction of electromigration for AChRs and concanavalin A binding sites (Orida and Poo, 1978).
(15) Secret Aid Worker: After years in the field, I've lost my compassion Read more But I feel like I don’t walk the talk and I’ll have a hard time doing so because it’s all about how I poo.
(16) Yes, why can’t female film-makers write some nice, believable stuff, like a movie about an astronaut who survives by planting potatoes in his own poo when abandoned on Mars, or about an alliance of superheroes who save the world from an interdimensional alien invasion?
(17) Poo aside, maybe there's light at the end of a long Swedish tunnel.
(18) So it's rather a shame that the media now prefers to refer to it as "whale vomit" or, for a bit of variation, "whale poo" – as if the world is a kindergarten.
(19) Here are tales of recovery and redemption; interspecies friendships forged during early morning stick-retrieval sessions, with love blooming over a Jumbone livener by the poo bin next to the pond.
(20) Stools made from stools Photograph: Terra There are seats made from urine and sand , so it’s almost inevitable that there would be furniture fashioned from poo, or to be more precise, a mixture of horse manure, straw and other agricultural waste.