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fe·cal

(fē′kəl)

adj.

Of, relating to, or composed of feces.

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fecal

(ˈfiːkəl)

adj

(Physiology) the usual US spelling of faecal

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fe•cal

(ˈfi kəl)

adj.

of, pertaining to, or consisting of feces.

[1535–45]

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fecal - of or relating to feces; "fecal matter"

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[ˈfiːkəl] adj (US) = faecalfecal matter n → matières fpl fécales

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fe·cal

a. fecal, que contiene heces fecales;

___ abscess → absceso ___;

___ examination → examen ___;

___ fistula → fístula ___.

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adj fecal

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And to round out the buffet, crayfish, including the non-native rusty crayfish, appear to be increasing, possibly as a result of feeding on zebra mussels or their fecal pellets.

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The scrapings collected were placed on a glass slide under light microscope for mite eggs or fecal pellets. Mostly the history and clinical examination are adequate to make proper diagnosis.

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Each tiny "flake" is a clump of marine detritus: dead microscopic animals called plankton, fecal pellets (poop), bacteria, and other carbon-rich particles that together provide a rich source of food for deep-sea fish, jellies, and crustaceans.

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It fed on small-sized cultured phytoplankters, and excreted numerous fecal pellets. The female carried 4-5 eggs of 0.09 mm diameter that were loosely attached to the urosome.

Some Observations of Morphology and Behavior of a Hyperbenthic Misophrioid Copepod

We analyzed 23 composite fecal samples (each composite sample contained 10 fecal pellets) using micro-histological analysis following Sparks and Malecheck (1968).

A STUDY ON DIET AND RELATIONSHIP OF INDUS VALLEY SPINY-TAILED LIZARD (Saara hardwickii) WITH VEGETATION

For the study, they then extracted microbial DNA from the mice fecal pellets before and after the stress to test how the gut microbiota was affected.

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RNA fragments from coronaviruses, reported to be closely related to the one causing MERS, have been recovered from fecal pellets of several species of bats in Ghana and in four European countries, but no MERS infections are known in either humans or domestic animals in those areas.

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We then collected approximately 2 g of fresh fecal pellets from each pellet group and composited the pellets from each pellet group within each sampling area for each day of sampling.

Diet composition, quality and overlap of sympatric American pronghorn and gemsbok

Fecal pellets were collected from traps and handling bags and screened for coccidian oocysts by centrifugal flotation in modified Sheather's solution (Barnard and Upton, 1994).

Eimeria vilasi (apicomplexa: eimeriidae) from the roundtailed ground squirrel (xerospermophilus tereticaudus)

Components of this facies are: oncoids, fecal pellets and bioclasts (Fig.

Revisiting the late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous of the NW South Iberian Basin: new ages and sedimentary environments

We assessed the use of scat-detection dogs to search for fecal pellets in a low density moose (Alces alces) population in the Adirondack Park in New York State, and the success rate of DNA extraction from moose fecal pellets collected during the surveys.