In medicine and biology, scatology or coprology is the study of feces. Scatological studies allow one to determine a wide range of biological information about a creature, including its diet, health and diseases such as tapeworms.

What does the word scatological mean in English?

1 : interest in or treatment of obscene matters especially in literature. 2 : the biologically oriented study of excrement (as for taxonomic purposes or for the determination of diet)

How do you use scatological in a sentence?

Scatological meaning

He was an expert in scatological studies, called scatology. Relating to scatology, the usage of obscenities. His interest in scatological reading gained him very few friends.