scatology
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In medicine and biology, scatology or coprology is the study of faeces.
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In medicine and biology, scatology or coprology is the study of faeces.
Scatological studies allow one to determine a wide range of biological information about a creature, including its diet (and thus where it has been), health and diseases such as tapeworms.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “scatology” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.