fæcalith

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English

Noun

fæcalith (plural fæcaliths)

  1. Obsolete form of fecolith.
    • 1907, New York Medical Journal, page 423:
      A hardened fæcalith might or might not be present in the diverticuli.
    • 1920, Studies from the Laboratories of the Department of Surgery, page 87:
      There is no fæcal material present in the proximal two-thirds but in the clubbed tip there is a fæcalith of a hard and pasty consistency, 1 centimeter by 3 millimeters.
    • 1937, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, page 48:
      I think I was misled by the clinical history and did not give enough weight to the lack of deformity of the cæcum, its mobility, and the hardness of the mass: but it must be admitted that the appearances are very like those of intussusception and that fæcaliths in this situation are extremely rare.