stercolithn.
/ˈstəːkəʊlɪθ/ Medicine.
A piece of hardened fæces which has become the centre of a concretion.
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1910 Practitioner July 106 We came upon another abscess cavity, from which a typical appendicular stercolith was dislodged.
1973 Earnest & Sleisenger in Sleisenger & Fordtran Gastrointestinal Dis. cxii. 1531/1 A smaller, rounded, smooth hard mass of stool which cannot be expelled is called a stercolith or enterolith.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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