faeculent

comparative more faeculent · superlative most faeculent

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of feculent.

   If the fluid is faeculent it will be a yellow-brown colour and smell of faeces.

   1988, G. A. Coles, Manual of Peritoneal Dialysis: Practical Procedures for Medical and Nursing Staff, Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 32

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   She had several thin and faeculent stools, not like rice water, and had vomiting.

   1894, Annual Report of the Health Officer of the Port of New York for the Year 1893, Albany, N.Y.: James B. Lyon, page 30

   If vomitus is thicker and foul-smelling (faeculent), a more distal obstruction is likely. This change to faeculent vomiting usually takes place gradually after about 24 hours of complete obstruction and is often an indication for urgent operation. The term faeculent vomiting is something of a misnomer as it comprises putrefying altered small bowel contents rather than faeces.

   2002, H. George Burkitt, Clive R. G. Quick, Essential Surgery: Problems, Diagnosis, and Management, 3rd edition, Churchill Livingstone, →ISBN, page 176

   The increase in intestinal secretions also leads to abdominal distension, reverse peristalsis and eventual vomiting of faeculent matter.

   2007, Ian Felstead, “Surgey of the Lower Gastrointestinal Tract”, in Fiona McArthur-Rouse, Sylvia Prosser, editors, Assessing and Managing the Acutely Ill Adult Surgical Patient, Blackwell Publishing, page 148

   Blood or faeculent material: continual staining of the ascitic fluid with fresh blood or any staining with faeculent material may indicate puncture of a vessel or viscus.

   2009, Joanna Chikwe, Axel Walther, Phil Jones, Perioperative Medicine: Managing Surgical Patients with Medical Problems (Oxford Specialist Handbooks), 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, page 365

   Note: the only time you will see faecal (i.e. true faeces), as opposed to faeculent (i.e. foul looking), vomiting is in patients with a gastrocolonic fistula ... or coprophagia.

   2010, Hugo Farne, Edward Norris-Cervetto, James Warbrick-Smith, Oxford Cases in Medicine and Surgery, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 253