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n. - (medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes); A preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions).

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  • The doctor of scatology is flinging irrelevant sh!
  • February 19th, 2010 at 7: 16 pm just the bleepn facts says: dorkkkunt has a phd in scatology … Zzzzz …
  • The bovine scatology from the dems on lowering deficit, saving medicare, and lowering health care costs would make a blowfly wince.
  • Edit otoh, mayb he just innately realizes that the study of ID is best defined as scatology?
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