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dejecta

Pronunciation: /dɪˈdʒɛk.tə/

The English word “dejecta” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. any liquid or solid waste matter that is emanated, shed or discharged from the body. Dejecta include urine, faeces, sputum, pus, mucus, skin sloughing, lochia; their discharge can be nasal, aural, by expectoration, urethral, vaginal and so on.
  2. Especially, excrements

Etymology

From Latin dejecta (“things which have been cast away”), neuter plural of dejectus, past participle of dejicio (“to cast away”).

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