Meanings
- pluralplural onlySynonym of fecal matter.
Diseased and dead fish in the pens, together with fecalia and uneaten food, will also release lipid droplets.
1992, Canadian Journal of Microbiology, page 10524 more examples
At the same time, one of the sources of enteroviruses in the environment are the fecalia and the daily-economic sewage.
1964, Hygiene and Sanitation, page 36Unfortunately, fecalia and urine contain many factors favorable for microbial growth, as well as for the life of the snails in which part of the cycle of schistosomes takes place.
1966, Oscar Felsenfeld, The Epidemiology of Tropical Diseases, page 50When there is a large lice population on underclothing, a patient can be infected with typhus by means of louse fecalia, which dry rapidly; when such articles of clothing are moved or put on, dry louse fecalia are pulverized and readily inhaled by man, leading to inhalational infection with typhus of bronchioli.
1966 April 29, Natural Foci of Transmissible Diseases as Related to Territorial Epidemiology of Zooanthroponoses, page 58Development work is now in progress on this type of toilet aimed at the separation of fecalia and urine and separate treatment of these two types of waste.
1980, Human Settlements in the Arctic: An Account of the ECE Symposium on Human Settlements Planning and Development in the Arctic, Godthåb, Greenland, 18-25 August 1978, page 60Synonyms: fecal matter
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of fecal matter.
Origin
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