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fecal-oral

fecal-oral adjective: involving fecal matter being consumed through the food pathway.

Adjective

fecal-oral (not comparable)

  1. Involving fecal matter being consumed through the food pathway.
    • Many common infections are spread by fecal-oral transmission.

Words that rhyme with fecal-oral

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Questions about fecal-oral

What does fecal-oral mean?
Fecal-oral means involving fecal matter being consumed through the food pathway.
What part of speech is fecal-oral?
Fecal-oral is an adjective.

Words near fecal-oral in the dictionary

  1. fecal occult blood
  2. fecal occult bloods
  3. fecal revolution
  4. fecal transplant
  5. fecal transplants
  6. fecal-oral
  7. fecalia
  8. fecalith
  9. fecaliths
  10. fecality
  11. fecally

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