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Feces

Known as: poop, faecal, faeces 
The material discharged from the bowel during defecation. It consists of undigested food, intestinal mucus, epithelial cells, and bacteria.
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Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Abdominosacral resection for midrectal cancer. A fifteen-year experience.
From 1966 to 1981, 646 patients underwent resection for primary adenocarcinoma of the rectum by one surgeon (S.A.L.) in one… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Epidemic nosocomial meningitis due to Citrobacter diversus in neonates.
Five infants born at one hospital over a two-year period developed meningitis due to a serotype O2 strain of Citrobacter diversus… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Prevention of aspirin-induced faecal blood loss by prostaglandin E2.
Prostaglandins have been shown in animal laboratory studies to be capable of protecting the gastrointestinal tract against injury… 
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Gastrointestinal blood loss. Effect of aspirin, fenoprofen, and acetaminophen in rheumatoid arthritis as determined by sequential gastroscopy and radioactive fecal markers.
The feasibility of determining the exact site and amount of drug-induced gastric bleeding was tested. Fourteen patients with… 
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Determination of the colonization resistance of the digestive tract of individual mice
SUMMARY It has been shown that it is possible to investigate the colonization resistance in individual mice by determining the… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Changes in sucrase, enterokinase, and peptide hydrolase after intestinal resection. The association of cellular hyperplasia and adaptation.
In a study of changes in digestive enzymes after massive intestinal resection and the mechanisms by which such changes occur… 
Review
1971
Review
1971
Liver disease associated with early syphilis.
RECENT public-health surveys indicate a marked increase in the prevalence of needle-transferred hepatitis in young people.1… 
Highly Cited
1967
Highly Cited
1967
The gradient of electrical potential difference and of sodium and potassium of the gut contents along the caecum and colon of normal and sodium‐depleted rats
1. The Na, K and water content of stools, and of gut contents removed from the terminal ileum, caecum and colon were determined… 
Highly Cited
1964
Highly Cited
1964
MILK-INDUCED GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING IN INFANTS WITH HYPOCHROMIC MICROCYTIC ANEMIA.
SEVERAL FACTORS are known to contribute to the development of hypochromic microcytic anemia in infants, eg, prematurity, multiple… 
Highly Cited
1960
Highly Cited
1960
Spring rise in faecal worm-egg counts of housed sheep, and its importance in nutritional experiments
1. A spring-rise in faecal strongyloid egg count is described in sheep housed under conditions designed to prevent reinfestation…