Scatology

Scatology, or coprology, in medicine, biology and paleontology, 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.

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In psychology, a scatology is an obsession with excretion or excrement, or the study of such obsessions. (See also coprophilia).

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In literature, "scatological" commonly describes indecent works that make particular reference to excretion or excrement, as well as to toilet humour.

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In Spanish and possibly other languages (note the language sidebar), scatology is pronounced almost identical to English eschatology, the study of the end of the world.

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Medicine: Medicine is a branch of health science concerned with maintaining human health and restoring it by treating disease and injury; it is both an area of knowledge, a science of body systems and diseases and their treatment, and the applied practice of that knowledge....

Paleontology: Paleontology (the American spelling; the British spelling is palaeontology) is the study of the developing history of life on earth, of ancient plants and animals based on the fossil record, evidence of their existence preserved in rocks. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks, burrows, cas...

Feces: Feces (American English) or faeces/fæces (Commonwealth English) are semi-solid waste products from an animal digestive tract expelled through the anus (or cloaca) during defecation. In humans, defecation may occur (depending on the individual and the circumstances) from once every two or thre...