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Defecation   Listen
noun
Defecation  n.  
1.
The act of separating from impurities, as lees or dregs; purification.
2.
(Physiol.) The act or process of voiding excrement.





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"Defecation" Quotes from Famous Books



... horses. They are diagnosed by the appearance of bright-red irregular tumors after defecation, which may remain visible at all times or be seen only when the horse is down or after passing his manure. They are mostly due to constipation, irritation, or injuries, or follow from the severe straining during dysentery. I have observed them to follow from ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture
... warmer rain. The parable psychoanalytically regarded, is the result of a regression leading us into infantile thinking and feeling; we have seen it clearly enough in the comparison with the myths. And here it is to be noticed how great an interest children take in the process of defecation. I should not have considered this worthy of notice, did not the hermetic symbolism, as we shall see later, actually use in parallel cases the expressions "fimus," "urina puerorum," etc., in quite an unmistakable manner. In any case it is worth remembering that out of ...
— Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts • Herbert Silberer
... physiological occurrences—and it was found that the bowels moved and the bladder was emptied at about the same time each day. Any mother, caretaker, or nurse, who will take the time to keep a daily record of the hours of defecation and urination, will observe the time carefully and will catch the child on nearly every occasion before an accident occurs. Often as early as four months the bowels will move in an infant's chamber at regular times each day. The nurse or mother places ...
— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler


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