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Waste material

noun

Any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted. Synonyms: waste, waste matter, waste product. "Much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers"

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"Waste material" Quotes from Famous Books

... has a certain element of truth and it permits an instructive and helpful analogy; but that is all. The sexual act presents many characters which are absent in an ordinary act of evacuation, and, on the other hand, it lacks the special characteristic of the evacuation proper, the elimination of waste material; the seminal fluid is not a waste material, and its retention is, to some extent perhaps, rather an advantage than ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... Nature may make another attempt at purification, this time, possibly, in another direction; but again her well-meant efforts are defeated. This process of suppression is repeated over and over again until blood and tissues become so loaded with waste material and poisons that the healing forces of the organism can no longer react against them by acute diseases. Then results the chronic condition, which in the vocabulary of the "Old School" of medicine is only ...

— Nature Cure • Henry Lindlahr

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