Debreuil, who keeps antelopes in a very large park at Melun, has noticed that the excreta are always to be found in masses and not scattered about as if they had been discharged by animals in motion.
The excretaare smooth and often nearly liquid, especially after fruit has been eaten.
Recently, however, bacteriologists have criticised this accepted view, on account of the small number of microbes found in the excreta of constipated persons.
Fruit bats fed upon fruit discharged excreta with a pleasant odour of apples and bananas.
The excreta of sheep, normally solid, do not betray any special putrefaction in the intestine, but if the body is opened there is abundant evidence of the process.
Each individual has its own mouth and digestive tube, but the latter opens into a cloaca, common to all the individuals, by which the excreta are voided.
The animals will take it only in the absence of other food; their excreta become black, and if they are kept on such a diet for a time they waste in a marked manner.
I find that Indian fruit bats (Pteropus medius) discharge their excreta very often.
The child has to be taught that, alike for æsthetic and for hygienic reasons, the evacuation of the excreta must be effected in a retired place.
Young raptores eject their semi-fluid excreta over the edge of the nursery; thus the nest is kept clean, but the droppings on the ground betray its presence to all the world.
The excreta of the young," he writes, "leave the cloaca in the form of white opaque or transparent mucous sacs.
It consists of the solid and liquid excreta of animals that are fed at the homestead, together with the material used as litter.
The excreta are simply left in the ground to undergo in the soil the various organic changes, the difference in methods being only as regards the vessels of collection and storage.
In this system the excreta are passed to certain pipes and receptacles, and from there aspirated by means of air exhausts.
Whitewash is often used to disinfect walls and ceilings of cellars as well as of rooms; milk of lime is used to disinfect excreta in privy vaults, school sinks, etc.
The objections to them are the following: (1) The excreta lies exposed in the iron trough, and may decompose even in one day; and it is always offensive.
The container is large, excreta adhere to its upper parts, and the iron becomes corroded and coated with filth.
The solid portion is left to accumulate until the hole is filled or the stench becomes unbearable, when the hole is either covered up and forgotten, or the excreta are removed and the hole used over again.
Whenever lime is used for disinfecting excreta it should be used generously, and be thoroughly mixed with the material to be disinfected.
The excreta are passed directly into stone or metal water- and gas-tight pails, which, after filling, are hermetically covered and removed to the places for final disposal.
The reserve of excreta in this hunch enables it to seal accidental perforations of the shell of its lodging with an instantaneous jet of mortar.
It will breed also in human excrement, and because of this habit it is very dangerous to the health of human beings, carrying as it does the germs of intestinal diseases, such as typhoid fever and cholera, from the excreta to food supplies.
The water supply of a community becomes infected by the entrance into it of the excreta (stools and urine) of persons suffering from typhoid fever.
What is commonly known as fly speck is the excreta of the fly, and frequently contains virulent disease germs.
These germs are found in the excreta (stools and urine) of persons ill with typhoid fever.
Before describing the sewerage system of Rome, it might be interesting to glance backward at the efforts made prior to that time to dispose of excreta and household wastes.
Excreta were collected in cesspools often built beneath the floor of the house.
For instance, the heart at first exists as a simple pulsating vessel; the excretaare voided through a cloacal passage; and the os coccyx projects like a true tail, "extending considerably beyond the rudimentary legs.
At a much earlier period the uterus was double; the excreta were voided through a cloaca; and the eye was protected by a third eyelid or nictitating membrane.
It is said by some that even his excreta are held sacred.
I looked closely, and finally touched with my finger the excreta to find if it were glutinous.
For this reason the manure formed from horse excreta is particularly liable to rapid fermentation.
It will consequently tend to a clearer apprehension of the subject if we first examine briefly the chemical composition of the solid excreta and urine of the farm animals.
The solid excreta consist, as we have seen, of undigested food, while the urine contains the manurial ingredients of the food which have been digested by the animal system.
The solid excreta of horses, sheep, cows, and pigs, are well known to possess different properties, as well as to vary in their composition.
Not all the nitrogen originally present in the excreta finds its way into the sea; for it is highly probable that a considerable quantity escapes in the process of the decomposition of the sewage as "free" nitrogen.
Conical stacks of the dried excreta of animals, the chief fuel of the country, adorned the roofs, but the general aspect was ruinous and poor.
Fuel--the dried excreta of animals--is too scarce to be used for any but cooking purposes, and on these balconies in the severe cold of winter the people sit to imbibe the warm sunshine.
But in none of these cases are the excreta of the victim necessary, nor does the superstition react in the interest of public health.
What could better secure the sanitation of villages than the fear of ndrau-ni-kau, which taught the people to destroy or bury all offal and excretafor fear of affording an instrument for witchcraft to a secret enemy?
Of the fatal effects of the effluvia from the excreta it would seem unnecessary to speak, were they not so constantly neglected.
In the preceding chapters we have mentioned some of the most common cases of retention of excreta in the rectum, sigmoid cavity, colon, cecum, duodenum and stomach, and how the consequent foul conditions often resulted in diarrhea.
A leading authority says that the character and amount of the daily excreta furnish suggestions as to the required food supply.
To disinfect excreta or putrefying solutions, enough disinfectant should be added to produce in the solution or matter being disinfected the percentage of disinfectant necessary to act as such.
Each infective oyster must contain infected sewage, which presupposes that typhoid excreta from patients suffering from the disease have passed into that particular sewage untreated and not disinfected.
Let us suppose a town water supply is polluted with some typhoid excreta on the 1st of January.
Again, it may become polluted by dried tubercular excretagetting into it.
As in tubercle and anthrax, so in typhoid, dried dust orexcreta containing the bacillus is the vehicle of disease.
Hill and Abram recommend[108] that the excreta and disinfectant be thoroughly mixed and stand for at least half an hour.
The demon may be exorcised by an incantation of one sentence: Keep human excreta out of the drinking water.
That end which becomes theirs who touch Brahmanas or fire with the feet, that end which becomes theirs who throw phlegm and excreta and eject urine into water, even that miserable end shall be mine, if I do not slay Jayadratha!
With coats of mail and other leathern armour (casing their limbs) cut open, they weltered in excreta ejected by themselves.
As in the case of pébrine, the excreta of the worms attacked by flacherie, defiling the leaves, carry the mischief to the healthy worms, or add to the dangerous fermentation in the intestines of those which are already in part attacked.
By the excreta of corpusculous worms which he crushed, mixed with water, and spread with a paint-brush over the mulberry leaves intended for a single meal, Pasteur was able to communicate the contagion to as many worms as he liked.
This is the excreta of the worms, which the microscope shows to be more or less filled with corpuscles drawn from the lining of the intestinal canal.
It is easy to understand that these excreta, falling on the leaves, contaminate them all the more easily because the worms, by the weight of their bodies in crawling, press the excreta against the leaves.
The excreta were removed by both parents; they were eaten during about the first half of the nest life and carried away after that; the female did most of this.
Much dust is composed largely of driedexcreta of animals.
The germs multiply very rapidly in the intestine and are passed off from the body with the excreta from the food tube.
Typhoid fever germs live in the food tube, hence the excreta of a typhoid patient will contain large numbers of germs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "excreta" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dejection; discharge; effluent; ejection; excrement; filth; secretion; waste
