In medicine and biology, scatology or coprology is the study of feces. Scatological studies allow one to determine a wide range of biological information about a creature, including its diet (and thus where it has been), healthiness, and diseases such as tapeworms. It came from Greek σκωρ (genitive σκατος) = "poop". This article is about the field of medical practice and health care. ... Biology is the branch of science dealing with the study of life. ... Rabbit feces are usually 8-10 mm in diameter, dry to the touch, and look similar to a raisin. ... In nutrition, the diet is the sum of the food consumed by an organism. ... Habitat (from the Latin for it inhabits) is the place where a particular species lives and grows. ... ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ... A disease is an abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort, dysfunction, or distress to the person afflicted or those in contact with the person. ... ... The genitive case is a grammatical case that indicates a relationship, primarily one of possession, between the noun in the genitive case and another noun. ... Shit is a vernacular word in Modern English denoting feces, the waste product of digestion. ...

In psychology, a scatology is an obsession with excretion or excrement, or the study of such obsessions. (See also coprophilia). Psychology (Gk: psyche, soul or mind + logos, speech) is an academic and applied field involving the study of the human mind, brain, and behavior. ... Excretion is the biological process by which an organism chemically separates waste products from its body. ... Feces (also spelled faeces or fæces) are the waste products from the digestive tract expelled through the anus during defecation. ... Look up coprophilia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

In sexual context scatology refers to sexual acts conducted with human (or other) excrement.

In literature, "scatological" commonly describes works that make particular reference to excretion or excrement, as well as to toilet humor. A common slang term for the sexual act of defecating in another person's mouth is a "hot lunch". Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

See also

• Scat

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External links and references

• Maledicta: The International Journal of Verbal Aggression (ISSN US 0363-3659)

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Further reading

Probably the most comprehensive study of scatology was that documented by John Gregory Bourke under the title Scatalogic Rites of All Nations (1891). An abbreviated version of the work was published as The Portable Scatalog, edited by Louis P. Kaplan and with a foreword by Sigmund Freud; New York: William Morrow and Company (1994) ISBN 0-688-13205-5. John Gregory Bourke John Gregory Bourke (1843-1896) was a captain in the United States military. ... Sigmund Freud, around 1921 Sigmund Freud (IPA: []) (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. ...