SCATOLOGY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

(medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("scatology" is a kind of...):

chemical analysis; qualitative analysis (the act of decomposing a substance into its constituent elements)

Domain category:

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

Meaning:

A preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("scatology" is a kind of...):

dirty word; filth; obscenity; smut; vulgarism (an offensive or indecent word or phrase)

Derivation:

scatological (dealing pruriently with excrement and excretory functions)