What's the difference between excrement and excreta?

Excrement


Definition:

  • (n.) Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure.
  • (n.) An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Total coliforms in 23 of 42, 7 days samples and excrement coliforms in 5 of 18, 3 days samples, were developed during the 38 days period.
  • (2) The higher activity in the experiments with less total areas is traced back to the excrement areas, which increased during experimental time and so reduced the lying area, which led to more unrest among the animals.
  • (3) Muslims are plotting to infect our food chain with their excrement,” said a man in his 60s, who refused to give his name.
  • (4) The dumping of excrement on the statue was “reprehensible and regrettable” and an investigation was under way, the university said in a statement last week.
  • (5) That is to say the proportionate representation of various defects is similar to each other when given biological excrements at different states of gonads are considered.
  • (6) There have been at least five recorded incidents of racial intimidation in east Belfast including a young Roma cyclist being showered with a bag of excrement on the Newtonards Road a fortnight ago.
  • (7) Microflora of the pharynx, nose, sputum and excrements was investigated.
  • (8) PoisonDwarf agreed: "I guarantee that the excrement is going to hit the rotary cooling device on this one.
  • (9) Larvae were proved to be able to survive 11 months in the environment, even if the eggs had been eliminated with excrements to the grass in July at a high temperature of 26 degrees C. For instance, the larvae Nematodirus, Ostertagia, Chabertia and Trichostrongylus, belonging to the most resistant, survived from the July of one year to the June of the subsequent year in a closed sheep-run located on the pasture and excluding a possibility of access of other animals.
  • (10) Y. enterocolitica was isolated from all the animals for slaughter (especially from the swine's pharynx and excrement, where pathogenic serotypes for man were isolated), this ascertainment has led the Authors to research the microorganism in foods of animal kind.
  • (11) From day 12 after infection, oocysts of cryptosporidia were found in the excrement.
  • (12) They are kept in overcrowded cells; they are denied toothbrushes, toothpaste, and soap; they are subjected to the constant stench of excrement and refuse in their congested cells [and] they are surrounded by walls smeared with mucus and blood,” said one passage of the lawsuit, which went on to name several more hardships.
  • (13) A regular disinfection of infected animal excrements is considered to be unrenouncable.
  • (14) coccidia in smears of gut contents and samples of excrements stained after Heine (1982) was investigated in calves at the age of 30 days, coming from 16 farms of central Bohemia.
  • (15) Dp 42 was purified from an acetone-precipitated mite-excrement extract by a combination of hydrophobic interaction chromatography on phenyl Sepharose and copper-chelate chromatography.
  • (16) After oral application the dyes showed a negative response in bile, excrements, and bone marrow.
  • (17) Transformer On paper, Duchamp invented a "transformer designed to utilise wasted energies", among them exhaled tobacco smoke, urine and excrement, ejaculation and tears.
  • (18) Secondly, there were changes to the system of disposal of excrement from cesspits to poorly organized pail and single-pan schemes which led to the causal disposal of sewage in the street gutters.
  • (19) The following characteristics were investigated: glycaemia, glycosuria, lactic acid concentration, plasma osmolality, hematocrit value, net acid-base secretion and excrement dry matter.
  • (20) However, as more cattle were dipped and the vat became polluted with dirt and excrement, settling occurred much more slowly.

Excreta


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) Matters to be excreted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From various sites, 0 to 3 x 10(5) viable C. neoformans particles were recovered per one gram of dry excreta.
  • (2) All interior surfaces of the chambers which could be reached by animals or their excreta were contaminated with radiolabeled metabolites.
  • (3) 50 g of each diet was tube-fed to each of 24 intact and 24 caecectomised cockerels, which had been previously starved for 48 h. Excreta were collected, individually, for 48 h. The concentrations of amino acids in the diets and excreta were determined, and digestibility coefficients calculated.
  • (4) Elimination of the labeled toxin in excreta occurred rapidly; recovery of radioactivity accounted for 78.6, 92.1, and 98.5% of the dose by 24, 48, and 72 hr, respectively.
  • (5) Up to 90% of the dose administered to rabbits appeared in the excreta during 10 days.
  • (6) The rate of excreta production was affected by the duration of starvation prior to the feeding of coarsely ground corn, soybean meal, and meat meal.
  • (7) We could detect no change in the lipid excreta obtained from rabbits that developed only subclinical MGD, consisting of orifice plugging and dilation of the duct.
  • (8) The cat is very important in the epidemiology of toxoplasmosis, but contact with cat excreta is most uncommon.
  • (9) Data on the economic status, number of rooms per household, number of persons per household, type of water supply, and mode of excreta disposal revealed that the majority of the population surveyed lived with economic hardship, overcrowding and poor hygiene.
  • (10) An isotope-dilution technique was used to estimate endogenous manganese in excreta.
  • (11) Correlation between calcium retention by the whole-body-counting and the excreta-recovery methods was highly significant (r = 0.835, P less than 0.0001; N = 17).
  • (12) This has started to change significantly in the past 10 years, helped by new approaches of provoking people and “triggering” them to improve how they defecate, for example by calling excreta “shit”.
  • (13) Denitronipradilol, 4- and 5-hydroxynipradilol, and 4- and 5-hydroxydenitronipradilol were identified as major metabolites in the plasma and excreta, and the degradation compounds of the aminohydroxypropoxy side chain were also found as minor metabolites.
  • (14) Plateau concentrations in excreta and blood were reached after about 20 d of contamination.
  • (15) Fecal crude fat was higher (P less than 0.05) for chicks fed barley, and excreta dry matter was lower for barley-fed chicks.
  • (16) The in vivo Ca solubilization in hens was determined by subtracting Ca recovered as limestone in the excreta (by repeated washing) from Ca fed as limestone.
  • (17) True digestible values were determined with a 48 h excreta collection assay using conventional (CONV) and caecectomized (CEC) cockerels.
  • (18) This process was accompanied by the release of significant amounts of mercury which appeared in the body organs and excreta.
  • (19) It averaged in the order of increasing Mn supply 12.5 vs. 12.0; 7.7 vs. 8.5; 3.9 vs 4.3, and 2.0 vs 2.3% of total excreta Mn.
  • (20) Excreta energy (FE + UE), excreta nitrogen (FN + UN), and excreta energy corrected to zero nitrogen balance (FEn + UEn) losses were measured at 24-hr intervals as were body weights (BW) and weight losses (delta BW).

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