feco-, fec-, faeco-, faec-, feci-

An abnormal fear of having painful defecation (bowel movements).

1. To void feces from the bowels.
2. To void excrement from the bowels through the anus; have a bowel movement.
3. To become clear of dregs, impurities, etc.
4. To remove (impurities, as in a chemical solution); to clarify.

The elimination of fecal waste through the rectum and anus.

Defecation or feceation is the act or process by which organisms eliminate solid or semisolid waste material from the digestive tract.

Humans remove waste anywhere from several times daily to a few times weekly. Waves of muscular contractions known as peristalsis in the walls of the colon move fecal matter through the digestive tract towards the rectum for elimination.

Radiographic examination of the act of defecation of a radiopaque stool.

1. Foul with waste matter>
2. Of or relating to feces, or composed of feces.
3. The excrement discharged from the intestines.
4. From the Latin faex and faecis, meaning the dregs or sediment.

The concretion or calcified mass of fecal material; coprolith.

1. Resembling feces.
2. Similar to or like feces.

Pain caused by elimination of large and hard fecal masses.