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faeculent (comparative more faeculent, superlative most faeculent)

1. Alternative spelling of feculent
   • 1894, Annual Report of the Health Officer of the Port of New York for the Year 1893, Albany, N.Y.: James B. Lyon, page 30:

     She had several thin and faeculent stools, not like rice water, and had vomiting.

   • 1988, G. A. Coles, Manual of Peritoneal Dialysis: Practical Procedures for Medical and Nursing Staff, Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 32:

     If the fluid is faeculent it will be a yellow-brown colour and smell of faeces.

   • 2002, H. George Burkitt; Clive R. G. Quick, Essential Surgery: Problems, Diagnosis, and Management, third edition, Churchill Livingstone, →ISBN, page 176:

     If vomitus is thicker and foul-smelling (faeculent), a more distal obstruction is likely. This change to faeculent vomiting usually takes place gradually after about 24 hours of complete obstruction and is often an indication for urgent operation. The term faeculent vomiting is something of a misnomer as it comprises putrefying altered small bowel contents rather than faeces.

   • 2007, Ian Felstead, “Surgey of the Lower Gastrointestinal Tract”, in Fiona McArthur-Rouse and Sylvia Prosser, editors, Assessing and Managing the Acutely Ill Adult Surgical Patient, Blackwell Publishing, page 148:

     The increase in intestinal secretions also leads to abdominal distension, reverse peristalsis and eventual vomiting of faeculent matter.

   • 2009, Joanna Chikwe; Axel Walther; Phil Jones, Perioperative Medicine: Managing Surgical Patients with Medical Problems (Oxford Specialist Handbooks), second edition, Oxford University Press, page 365:

     Blood or faeculent material: continual staining of the ascitic fluid with fresh blood or any staining with faeculent material may indicate puncture of a vessel or viscus.

   • 2010, Hugo Farne; Edward Norris-Cervetto; James Warbrick-Smith, Oxford Cases in Medicine and Surgery, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 253:

     Note: the only time you will see faecal (i.e. true faeces), as opposed to faeculent (i.e. foul looking), vomiting is in patients with a gastrocolonic fistula ... or coprophagia.

   • 2016, Sriram Bhat M, SRB’s Manual of Surgery, 5th edition, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, →ISBN, page 921:

     Vomiting: ‣ In jejunal obstruction, it is early and persistent. ‣ In ileal obstruction, it is recurrent occurring at an interval; initially bilious later faeculent.