Scatology

[skә'tɒlәdʒi]

Definition

(noun.) (medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes).

(noun.) a preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions).

Typist: Serena--From WordNet

Definition

n. the knowledge of fossil excrement or coprolites: knowledge of the usages of primitive peoples about excrements human and other.—adj. Scatolog′ical.—ns. Scat′omancy Scatos′copy divination of disease by inspection of excrement; Scatoph′aga the dung-flies.—n.pl. Scatophag′id?/span> a family of acanthopterygian fishes.—adj. Scatoph′agous feeding on excrement.

Checker: Sinclair