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As a noun dejecta

is any liquid or solid waste matter that is emanated, shed or discharged from the bodygordh and headrick (2011) a dictionary of entomology'' [http://booksgooglecom/books?id=9icmceajp6cc&pg=pa421 p421][http://wwwthefreedictionarycom/dejecta ''dejecta''] at ''thefreedictionary'' dejecta include urine, faeces, sputum, pus, mucus, skin sloughing, lochia; their discharge can be nasal, aural, by expectoration, urethral, vaginal and so ondhaar (‎2008) ''foundations of community medicine , 2/e.

As a verb dejects is

(rare) (deject).

dejecta

English

Noun

(en-plural noun)
  • any liquid or solid waste matter that is emanated, shed or discharged from the body.Gordh and Headrick (2011) A Dictionary of Entomology'' p.421][http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dejecta ''dejecta'' at ''thefreedictionary'' Dejecta include urine, faeces, sputum, pus, mucus, skin sloughing, lochia; their discharge can be nasal, aural, by expectoration, urethral, vaginal and so on.Dhaar (?2008) ''Foundations of Community Medicine , 2/e
  • p.362]Mavis Kirkham ?(2007) Exploring the Dirty Side of Women's Health [http://books.google.com/books?id=b8eF2w1GwbUC&pg=PA35 p.35
  • excrements
  • the dejecta of the sick
    (Webster 1913)

    References

    dejects

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rare) (deject)

  • deject

    English

    Verb

  • Make sad or dispirited.
  • * Benjamin Franklin
  • I pitied poor Miss Read's unfortunate situation. She was generally dejected , seldom cheerful, and avoided company.
  • (obsolete) To cast down.
  • * Udall
  • Christ dejected himself even unto the hells.
  • * Fuller
  • Sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look.

    Quotations

    * 1927 Harold Victor Routh: God, Man, & Epic Poetry: A Study in Comparative Literature [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC03459385&id=fx8LAAAAMAAJ&q=dejects&dq=dejects&pgis=1] (page 215) *: Vergil succeeds in filling Hades with all that depresses and dejects in his world, so that Aeneas encounters the causes of Augustan pessimism. * 1933 Arthur Melville Jordan: Educational Psychology (page 60) [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00764755&id=U6cQm3IcVHcC&q=%22there+is+nothing+which+dejects+school+children+quite+so+%22&dq=%22there+is+nothing+which+dejects+school+children+quite+so+%22&pgis=1] *: On the other hand, there is nothing which dejects school children quite so much as failure.

    Derived terms

    * dejected * dejection