feces
Example Sentences
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All three parasites spread through poor sanitation, typically when food, water, or hands are contaminated with human feces.
From Science Daily
Higher in the mountains, the evidence of BTAZ’s grazing was even clearer: swaths of ground chewed and trampled bare, discarded plastic piping, cow feces and bones in an unfenced creek.
From Salon
Of his first brush with gross anatomy: “One scene with people carrying legs over their shoulders to the sink to wash out the feces just turned my stomach, and I was done.”
From Literature
Although humans and household pets can also produce endotoxins, the researchers found that a major portion of those detected in household dust originated from cockroach feces.
From Science Daily
Lumps of feces were strewn about, and little footprints trailed away from a dark hole in the floor.
From Literature
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