Anatomy

Feces

Excrement from the INTESTINES, containing unabsorbed solids, waste products, secretions, and BACTERIA of the DIGESTIVE SYSTEM.

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Excrement from the INTESTINES, containing unabsorbed solids, waste products, secretions, and BACTERIA of the DIGESTIVE SYSTEM.

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Indexed with the subheadings chemistry, cytology, enzymology, microbiology, parasitology, virology.

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/parasitol: often coord with PARASITE EGG COUNT; consider also DEFECATION; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; FECAL IMPACTION & FECAL INCONTINENCE; fecalith: index FECAL IMPACTION; fecal blood: index under OCCULT BLOOD & not also here

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  1. A12.459w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Feces. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D005243. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D005243
  2. Feces. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feces
  3. Feces. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q496