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feces

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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fe·ces /ˈfiːsiːz/ noun [plural]  HBthe American spelling of faeces faeces的美式拼法fecal /ˈfiːkəl/ adjective
Examples from the Corpus
fecesThe hospital smelled of ammonia and feces.Inside were six small children found living in squalor, the smell of urine and feces permeating the house.He was obsessed with counting his jaw movements, as well as weighing his feces to see what was being digested.Clearly disturbed, Brown stripped off his clothes and sat in the cell naked, covered with his own feces.Here adenosine helps control the tone of the smooth muscles used to propel feces on its way.He smeared feces all over himself.This malabsorption results in an excess lipid accumulation in the feces that is known as steatorrhea.However, the lack of bile flow into the intestines will result in neither urobilinogen nor urobilin being found in the feces.
Origin feces (1300-1400) Latin plural of faex waste material
fe·ces nounChineseSyllable
American spelling Corpus faeces the of


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feces
I
faeces (also feces American English) /ˈfiːsiːz/ noun [plural] formal
solid waste material from the bowels
—faecal /ˈfiːkəl/ adjective

II
feces /ˈfiːsiːz/ noun [plural]
 Date: 1300-1400
 Language: Latin
 Origin: plural of faex 'waste material'
the American spelling of faeces
—fecal /ˈfiːkəl/ adjective


feces (NAmE) (BrE fae·ces) BrE /ˈfiːsiːz/ 🔊NAmE /ˈfiːsiːz/ 🔊 noun [plural] (formal) solid waste material that leaves the body through the anus 粪便 SYN excrement fecal (NAmE) (BrE fae·cal) BrE /ˈfiːkl/ 🔊NAmE /ˈfiːkl/ 🔊 adjective [only before noun]