fecal
Example Sentences
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"They left me there all night, with damp walls, toilets in a deplorable state with hundreds of cockroaches and fecal matter that has built up over months," Castro recounted.
From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026
After a second fecal transplant, using a different antibiotic pretreatment, the patient remained symptom-free for more than 16 months.
From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2026
The team analyzed fecal samples from 14 people with CAD and compared them to samples from 28 healthy participants using metagenomic sequencing, a powerful technique that identifies all the DNA within a sample.
From Science Daily • Nov. 12, 2025
Heal the Bay monitors beaches along the California coast — testing water samples for fecal bacteria, including coliform, E. coli and enterococcus.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2025
The Tug, Dad said, had the highest level of fecal bacteria of any river in North America.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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