What's the difference between feces and waste?

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.

Waste


Definition:

  • (a.) Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
  • (a.) Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
  • (a.) Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
  • (a.) To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
  • (a.) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
  • (a.) To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.
  • (a.) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.
  • (v. i.) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.
  • (v. i.) To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.
  • (v.) The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc.
  • (v.) That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.
  • (v.) That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.
  • (v.) Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.
  • (v.) Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
  • (2) Muscle wasting in MYD may be explained by these abnormalities as well.
  • (3) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
  • (4) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
  • (5) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
  • (6) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
  • (7) In South Africa, health risks associated with exposure to toxic waste sites need to be viewed in the context of current community health concerns, competing causes of disease and ill-health, and the relative lack of knowledge about environmental contamination and associated health effects.
  • (8) It was recently demonstrated that MRL-lpr lymphoid cells transferred into lethally irradiated MRL- +mice unexpectedly failed to induce the early onset of lupus syndrome and massive lymphadenopathy of the donor, instead they caused a severe wasting syndrome resembling graft-vs-host (GvH) disease.
  • (9) But there was a clear penalty on Diego Costa – it is a waste of time and money to have officials by the side of the goal because normally they do nothing – and David Luiz’s elbow I didn’t see, I confess.
  • (10) But in the rush to design it, Girardet wonders if the finer details of waste disposal and green power were lost.
  • (11) The agency, which works to reduce food waste and plastic bag use, has already been gutted , with its budget reduced to £17.9m in 2014, down from £37.7m in 2011.
  • (12) Sagan had a way of not wasting words, even playfully.
  • (13) In the end, prisons are all about wasting human life and will always be places that take things away.
  • (14) It just seems a bit of a waste, I say, given that he's young and handsome and famous.
  • (15) Any surplus food left over goes to anaerobic digestion energy plants, which turn food waste into electricity.
  • (16) By its calorific value the mycelial waste is equal to brown coal or peat.
  • (17) The observed differences in Na excretion suggest that this aldosterone hypersecretion may be of pathophysiological importance as a protection against inappropriate renal waste of Na during the early phase of endotoxin-induced fever.
  • (18) Hyperbilirubinaemia in newborn infants is generally regarded as a problem, and bilirubin itself as toxic metabolic waste, but the high frequency in newborn infants suggests that the excess of neonatal bilirubin may have a positive function.
  • (19) The original agricultural wastes had captured CO2 from the air through the photosynthesis process; biochar is a low-tech way of sequestering carbon, effectively for ever.
  • (20) In March, the Tories reappointed their trusty old attack dogs, M&C Saatchi, to work alongside the lead agency, Euro RSCG, and M&C Saatchi's chief executive, David Kershaw, wasted no time in setting out his stall, saying: "It's a fallacy that online has replaced offline in terms of media communications."