EXCREMENT
\ˈɛkskɹɪmənt], \ˈɛkskɹɪmənt], \ˈɛ_k_s_k_ɹ_ɪ_m_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of EXCREMENT
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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eks'kre-ment, n. useless matter discharged from the animal system: dung.--adjs. EXCREMENT'AL, EXCREMENTI'TIAL, EXCREMENTI'TIOUS, pertaining to or containing excrement. [L. excrementum--excern[)e]re--ex, out, cern[)e]re, to sift.]
By Thomas Davidson
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Everything, which is evacuated from the body of an animal by the natural emunctories, as superfluous; such as the focal matters, the urine, perspiration, nasal mucus, she. Generally, however, the term is restricted to the focal evacuations.
By Robley Dunglison
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[Latin] Matter cast out from the body; particularly, matter which has never actually formed a part of the body, but has simply passed through it. Hence, Excrementitious (ekskree-men-tishus), of, pertaining to, or having the nature of e.; pertaining to or consisting of material which, though taken into the body, is unsuitable for its use, and has to be thrown out. Excrementitious matter is distinguished from an excretion by the fact that it has never formed part of the body.
By Alexander Duane
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Waste matter discharged from bowels, dung, (also fig.). Hence or cogn. excremental, excrementitious, aa. [French]
By Sir Augustus Henry
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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