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Feces

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Definition: Excrement from the INTESTINES, containing unabsorbed solids, waste products, secretions, and BACTERIA of the DIGESTIVE SYSTEM.  /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   
See Also Manure; Melena
Examples Meconium; Melena
 
SubstanceCAS Registry & nameCategoriesSource
fecal antigen-1, normal  0   *Antigens Feces. Mol Immunol 1982;19(3):399

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