How to Use fecal in a Sentence

fecal

adjective
Definition of fecalnext
  • The Ohio River faces the same kind of finicky fecal problems.
    — Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 23 July 2024
  • Pull back sheets and check the mattress and box spring for live bed bugs or black fecal spots.
    — Jerome Goddard, The Conversation, 3 June 2022
  • If blood is found in the stool with a fecal test, then the person needs a follow-up colonoscopy, Kramer said.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 18 May 2021
  • Police said fecal matter was on the floor and throughout the house.
    — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 22 Apr. 2018
  • His bodyguard warned him fecal matter was found left in the bed.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The signs that Asian carp have an appetite for fecal matter have been there for some time.
    — Tony Briscoe, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Birds can shed the virus through their oral, nasal, urine and fecal secretions.
    — Todd Cornish, The Conversation, 25 Apr. 2024
  • The flu can be spread among birds through nasal and oral discharge, as well as fecal droppings.
    — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 May 2022
  • In 2019, the FDA held a meeting that focused on the future of fecal transplants.
    — Kate Sheridan and Allison Deangelis, STAT, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Both transplants came from the same donor’s fecal matter.
    — Denise Grady, New York Times, 13 June 2019
  • But hands can be germy — coated with fecal matter and E. coli.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2021
  • The petrified hunks went from a brown, fecal color to more of a bone-like ivory, Holbrook said.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 18 Aug. 2018
  • And less goose poop could mean less E. coli in the water and fewer fecal land mines for visitors to step on.
    — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2018
  • The same can be said for the fecal plugs that bears pass after hibernation.
    — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Gibbons also notes that the field of fecal transplants in mice remains a mixed bag.
    — Rachel Fritts, Science | AAAS, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Then come the gray seals, whose fecal plumes generate green algal blooms that can be seen from space.
    — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • This is not the first time fecal soup has affected northwest Iowa.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 28 June 2024
  • The statement added that the fecal matter used in the two patients originated from stool that came from the same donor.
    — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 14 June 2019
  • Nitrogen found in urine and fecal matter, which feeds the growth of algae.
    — Ryan MacAsero, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • While swabs from cows, milk, a dead bird, and a sample of fecal slurry showed signs of H5N1, all of the nasal swabs from the 14 humans were negative.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Rake up bird seed, hulls and fecal matter beneath feeders two or more times a week.
    — USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
  • At-home fecal immunochemical tests look for trace amounts of blood in the stool.
    — Discover Magazine, 31 May 2024
  • Right now, the lab has the capacity to test 30 samples of fecal matter per week.
    — Michael Williams, SFChronicle.com, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The pumps often disturb the snow and scatter fecal pellets.
    — New York Times, 3 Apr. 2022
  • Amid the old tires and mattresses dumped on the riverbank, mounds of rank green weeds gave refuge to birds and grasshoppers, which didn’t seem bothered by the fecal stench.
    — Christine Smallwood, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Black spots could be dried blood, fecal matter, or shedding skin.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 July 2024
  • Of those, 32 of the wells contained fecal matter from livestock or humans.
    — Mary Spicuzza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2019
  • At this time, it is not known whether the virus can spread through semen, vaginal fluids or fecal matter.
    — The Courier-Journal, 25 July 2022
  • The team confirmed the century-old results, and found that the bugs’ fecal matter could transmit the disease via mouse skin punctured by a needle or a bite.
    — Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Likewise, after changing the diaper of an infected child, E. coli in the fecal matter could spread to food.
    — Mustafa Fattah, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024

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