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.

Related Topics:
Medicine - Biology - Paleontology - Feces - Diet - Where it has been - Health - Disease - 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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Psychology - Excretion - Excrement - 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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Literature - 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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