What's the difference between excrement and faeces?

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.

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.

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