fecal

Of bodily waste

Fecal means relating to or consisting of feces—solid bodily waste.

The word appears in medical and scientific contexts: fecal matter, fecal contamination, fecal transplant.

It's the clinical alternative to cruder terms like shitty.

excrement

stool

Backless sitting furniture

scat · guano · manure · ordure · nightsoil · coprolite · waste · elimination · excreta · poop

agricultural

manure

Animal waste as fertilizer

amendment · nutrients · nitrogen · phosphorus · spreading · biosolids · slurry · lagoon · runoff · livestock

sanitation

latrine

Basic outdoor toilet

commode · loo · lavatory · john · sewage · septic · cesspool · sewer · wastewater · plumbing

diagnostic

sample

Subset for study

microbiome · culture · specimen · screening · colonoscopy · lab · transplant · flora · bacteria · parasitology

contamination

pathogens

Disease-causing microorganisms

viruses · waterborne · dysentery · cholera · typhoid · giardiasis · hepatitis · contamination · infection · disease

Categories
Opposites
bodily waste type

fecalurinary

Relating to urine

salivary · urological · renal · uric · biliary

cleanliness/purity

fecalsterile

Free from microorganisms

sanitary · clean · pure · pristine · hygienic

Phrases
Family

feces, defecate, defecation, defecating, fecal matter, fecal-oral

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
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