dejecta

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UK/dɪˈdʒɛk.tə/US/dɪˈd͡ʒɛk.tə/US/diˈd͡ʒɛk.tə/

noun

any liquid or solid waste matter that is emanated, shed or discharged from the body. Dejecta include urine, faeces, sputum, pus, mucus, skin sloughing, lochia; their discharge can be nasal, aural, by expectoration, urethral, vaginal and so on.

“the dejecta of the cholera patients”

OriginLatin dejecta →
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Meanings

noundejecta pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlybiologyany liquid or solid waste matter that is emanated, shed or discharged from the body. Dejecta include urine, faeces, sputum, pus, mucus, skin sloughing, lochia; their discharge can be nasal, aural, by expectoration, urethral, vaginal and so on.
    1. pluralplural onlybiologyEspecially, excrements

      the dejecta of the cholera patients

Origin

  1. Latindejecta“things which have been cast away”
  2. Englishdejecta

From Latin dejecta (“things which have been cast away”), neuter plural of dejectus, past participle of dejicio (“to cast away”).

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Translations

French déjection
  • déjectionbody waste
German Dejektion
  • Dejektionbody waste
Italian deiezioni
  • deiezionibody waste
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APA

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Chicago

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