What's the difference between dung and stercorate?

Dung


Definition:

  • () of Ding
  • (n.) The excrement of an animal.
  • (v. t.) To manure with dung.
  • (v. t.) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.
  • (v. i.) To void excrement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A total of 202 cultures of yeasts were isolated and characterized from king crab and Dungeness crab meat.
  • (2) 15 species were found on dung pellets of wild living herbivorous mammals.
  • (3) dives females oviposited in a medium of rat dung and water.
  • (4) Dorian Lucas, a nuclear specialist at energy consultancy, Inenco, made his comments after it was revealed that power group, EDF, had won permission to change the rules for its Dungeness B station.
  • (5) The result of this investigation indicated that probably the majority of the indoor catches are due to the migration of outdoor-produced sandflies specially in close surroundings where dried cow dung droppings were left.
  • (6) It was in the US that things really kicked off, when Giuliani declared: “The idea of, in the name of art, having a city subsidise art, so-called works of art, in which people are throwing elephant dung at a picture of the Virgin Mary, is sick.” He threatened to remove funding from the Brooklyn Museum unless “the director comes to his senses”.
  • (7) The only site rejected in the draft document was Dungeness, chiefly because of its "unique ecosystem".
  • (8) The composition of the myxobacterial flora depends on ecological factors (kind of dung pellets, rock, bark and pH).
  • (9) A smaller group of 9 horses showed a subacute course while 22 horses had chronic enteritis with intermittent diarrhoea--often semisolid like cow's dung--increased peristalsis, weight loss and, in some cases, hypoproteinaemia with subcutaneous edema.
  • (10) The dung of both the white rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum, and the black rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis, is considered to be a possible alternative site for the immatures of C. kanagai.
  • (11) Also featured are the puffer fish, dung beetle, veiled chameleon and moon jellyfish.
  • (12) Among dairy cows, wet cattle dung and all that, he was in a tie and jacket.
  • (13) Clifford Newbold, an architect who was involved in the design of Milbank Tower and Dungeness Lighthouse, had hoped to restore the palace to its Georgian splendour, but he died last year.
  • (14) The adults, puparium and 3rd instar larva of a dung-breeding fly, Musca nevilli sp.
  • (15) Predictions for this model are tested using all available data from the dung fly, Scatophaga stercoraria.
  • (16) The incidence of extensive damage to natural dung pats within five days of deposition, caused by biotic factors, another possible cause of D viviparus third stage larvae dispersal, varied from 0 to 92 per cent of the pats depending on their degree of dryness.
  • (17) Invasion by the recently defined dung beetle, Maladera matrida, is a new phenomenon which causes extreme distress, usually starting after invasion by the insect in the early morning hours.
  • (18) The quantitative and comparative analysis of the Purkinje cells indicates the higher mean linear density in the anterior lobe, with regard to posterior lobe, in the cerebellum of the dung cook, Gallus gallus.
  • (19) In 1999 Rudy Giuliani, the then mayor of New York City, tried to shut down Charles Saatchi's Sensation exhibition after taking offence at Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary, which featured a portrait of the Virgin Mary created partly from elephant dung.
  • (20) The transmission of Johne's disease was possibly promoted by furnishing the shelters with a scraper system to remove the dung, which system also reached the compartment housing young cattle.

Stercorate


Definition:

  • (n.) Excrement; dung.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A spontaneous stercoral fistula containing pinworms was observed in a patient, 35 years after an appendicectomy.
  • (2) Within 6 months, three constipated patients have been seen with stercoral perforation of the colon associated with the ingestion of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug medications (NSAIDs).
  • (3) Stercoral perforation of the colon is rare, and has not previously been reported as a postoperative complication, proximal to an end colostomy.
  • (4) Other causes of symptomless pneumoperitoneum include pneumatosis intestinalis, perforation in tabes dorsalis or coma, stercoral ulceration, physiological pneumoperitoneum in women due to exercise in the knee-elbow position, and vaginal douches with a bulb syringe or effervescent fluid.
  • (5) It is, therefore, suggested that intra-operative orthograde colonic lavage is indicated to protect a terminal colostomy from the risk of stercoral perforation in such cases.
  • (6) The feces of trypanosome-carrying reduviids are infective, suggesting a stercoreal method of infection of mammals, and infection was produced in experiments in which feeding by the insects was not possible.
  • (7) Stercoral perforation is often a consequence of chronic constipation.
  • (8) Definitions of spontaneous rupture and stercoral perforation of the colon are given, and the possible aetiological factors in and management of these rare cases are discussed.
  • (9) Stercoral perforations of the colon unassociated with obstructive lesions are rarely reported.
  • (10) Normal rate of post-operative complications was encountered: 2 subphrenic abscess, 1 pneumopathy, 1 stercoral peritonitis.
  • (11) Meanwhile, VFA production in the foregut (stomach and intestine) stopped, whereas it augmented in the hindgut; VFA enrichment of the caecocolonic and portal blood was greater when the rabbits were subjected to a stercoral fast.
  • (12) Moreover, complications of constipation such as fecal impaction, fecal incontinence, stercoral ulceration, and obstruction can be catastrophic in the debilitated elderly patient.
  • (13) There were three instances of colonic perforations, two associated with fecal impaction and stercoral ulceration and one with evidence of vasculitis.
  • (14) The stercoral fistula was clinically and radiologically proven in only one of the surgically treated patients and it healed without medicament therapy.
  • (15) Stercoral fasting did not diminish the quantity of VFA in the digestive tract.
  • (16) Macroscopically stercoral perforation origines from an ulcerative lesion often situated on the sigmoid colon or rectum.
  • (17) Stercoral perforation of the colon is a direct result of ischemic pressure necrosis by a stercoraceous mass.
  • (18) This typhlitis, or necrotizing enterocolitis involving the coecum and right colon resulted in stercoral peritonitis during the neutropenic phase.
  • (19) Anatomopathologically stercoral and idiopathic perforations present different characteristics.
  • (20) None of the patients suffered any known underlying disease of the affected bowel such as malignancy, diverticulosis, stercoral ulcer, colitis, or trauma.

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