What's the difference between feces and feculent?

Feces


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) dregs; sediment; excrement. See FAeces.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Concentrations of the drugs in feces increased with increasing dosage, resulting in greater changes of the intestinal bacterial flora.
  • (2) Ten or 4% of the administered parasites passed in the feces during the 3 days following the first or second infection, but 32% after the third infection.
  • (3) Significant decreases in most SCFA, total SCFA (0.01 less than P less than 0.02), and pyruvic acid (0.02 less than P less than 0.05) concentrations in feces were found on day 3 of treatment and also on day 5, with the exception of the pyruvic acid concentrations.
  • (4) Plasmid profiling was used to distinguish strains of lactobacilli inhabiting the digestive tract of piglets and the feces of sows.
  • (5) The feces contained less than 3% of the dose and the expired 14CO2 and cage wash accounted for less than 0.2 and 1% of the dose, respectively.
  • (6) An isolation technique involving filtration and discontinuous density gradient centrifugation was utilized for obtaining Giardia lamblia cysts from human feces.
  • (7) Homologous, heterologous, and intermediate gel CIE and CRIE clearly demonstrated that DF bodies and DF feces share some common Ags or epitopes, but the two different extracts also were quantitatively different.
  • (8) An average of 30% of administered radioactivity was found in feces, 50% in urine.
  • (9) The excretion of radioactivity in feces and urine was determined after a single i.v.
  • (10) Approximately 12% and 40% of radioactivity administered was excreted in the urine and feces respectively during the first 24 hours, however, the excretion of radioactivity by expiration was not determined.
  • (11) During the consecutive administration, recoveries of radioactivity in the urine and feces were almost at a constant rates, with 8.0 and 93.8% of the total radioactivity given excreted in the urine and feces, respectively, within 10 days after the last administration.
  • (12) The principal route of excretion of 48V administered iv was via urine, whereas the isotope given orally was excreted almost entirely by way of feces, resulting in low tissue and urinary 48V levels.
  • (13) A new serotype, candidate adenovirus type 42, a member of subgenus D, was isolated from the feces of a healthy child.
  • (14) In a trial with rams, application of polyethylene powder (PE) as a marker for determination of feed passage rate through the digestive tract and three methods of its determination in feed and feces were tested.
  • (15) Reovirus-like agents were detected by electron microscopy in the feces of 11 of 31 patients, but none was found from specimens collected during convalescence or from 16 asymptomatic matched controls (P less than 0.01).
  • (16) A 70-kilodalton antigen was found in feces that contained strain CDC:0284:1 cysts.
  • (17) administration of 1 mumole per kg body weight), and small amounts (less than 1% of administered dose) are excreted into the urine and feces.
  • (18) Two of three noninoculated pouch mates acquired infections during the study based on examinations of feces and tissue sections of all eight opossums.
  • (19) The 16S rRNA test was able to detect 10(7) bacteria per g of feces, and the IS900 test detected 10(4) to 10(5) per g of feces.
  • (20) Sixty-four patients use the device regularly and are able to retain feces of any consistency.

Feculent


Definition:

  • (a.) Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On one microscopic examination of sputum, the presence of feculent material was suspected.
  • (2) Soon after admission the patient sustained a massive feculent vomit and died.
  • (3) BLS was suggested by abdominal pain, feculent vomiting, steatorrhea, and hypoalbuminemia.
  • (4) DPL may be useful in the unstable patient to be sure the abdomen is the site of bleeding before starting an emergency laparotomy and occasionally, in more stable patients with ongoing abdominal pain, to rule out an associated bowel injury with perforation (e.g., recovery of bilious or feculant material).
  • (5) The presence of feculent debris that interfered with the colonoscopic examination was similar in both groups: simethicone 5 of 14 or 35% and placebo 7 of 12 or 58%.
  • (6) A review of 46 of the 63 reported cases of gastric and duodenal fistulization indicated that patients with gastric fistulas commonly present with vomiting (39%), and with histories of feculent eructations or frank feculent vomiting (44%), but that patients with duodenal fistulas rarely present with vomiting (3.6%), and never have feculent vomiting or eructations.
  • (7) These complications include (a) pain, feculent vomiting, and diarrhea; (b) gastrointestinal hemorrhage; and (c) peritonitis.
  • (8) Later, the predominant symptoms are diarrhea, weight loss and feculent vomiting.
  • (9) The typical symptoms are pain, diarrhea, weight loss, foul eructation, and feculent vomiting.
  • (10) Rarely encountered, these lesions are characterized by diarrhea, weight loss, abdominal pain, anemia, and sometimes feculent vomiting.
  • (11) At the time of admission, the scrotum was partly necrotic with repulsive feculent pus discharge and there was crepitus on palpation of involved areas.
  • (12) Six of the ten paracenteses that documented this condition were traumatic (bloody or producing feculent material).
  • (13) The only pathognomonic clinical features were feculent vomiting, eructations, or odor.
  • (14) Eighty percent (four of five) of patients with feculent debris in the rectosigmoid colon had diverticulosis, and 50% (four of eight) patients with diverticulosis had feculent debris in the rectosigmoid.
  • (15) Routine sinography revealed fistulous communications to the colon in nine patients (47 percent), but only three (16 percent) had grossly feculent drainage.
  • (16) These data indicate that (a) the combination of simethicone plus Colyte administered the night before colonoscopy improves visibility by diminishing bubbles; (b) this dosage of simethicone is not effective in diminishing haziness when administered the night before colonoscopy; and (c) patients with diverticulosis are likely to have feculent debris in the rectosigmoid colon, and a precolonoscopy enema may be helpful when the diagnosis is known.
  • (17) The effectiveness of a night-prior administration of Colyte to clean the colon of feculent debris was also examined.
  • (18) Patients with benign duodenocolic fistulas usually complain of diarrhea, and occasionally nausea and feculent vomiting.
  • (19) Abdominal pain, diarrhea, weight loss, vomiting, foul eructation, feculent vomiting and melena are among the presenting symptoms of patients with a gastrocolic fistula.

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