Dejecta Definition

dējektə
noun
Feces; excrement.
Webster's New World

(medicine, zoology) Any liquid or solid waste matter that is emanated, shed or discharged from the body. Dejecta include urine, faeces, sputum, pus, mucus, skin sloughing, lochia; their discharge can be nasal, aural, by expectoration, urethral, vaginal and so on.

Wiktionary
The dejecta of the sick.
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Origin of Dejecta

  • From Latin dejecta (“things which have been cast away”), neuter plural of dejectus, past participle of dejicio (“I cast away”).

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