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SCATOLOGY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("scatology" is a kind of...):
chemical analysis; qualitative analysis (the act of decomposing a substance into its constituent elements)
Domain category:
medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("scatology" is a kind of...):
dirty word; filth; obscenity; smut; vulgarism (an offensive or indecent word or phrase)
Derivation:
scatological (dealing pruriently with excrement and excretory functions)
