dejecta

From Latin dejecta (“things which have been cast away”), neuter plural of dejectus, past participle of dejicio (“I cast away”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪˈdʒɛk.tə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɪˈd͡ʒɛk.tə/, /diˈd͡ʒɛk.tə/

dejecta pl (plural only)

1. (medicine, zoology) any liquid or solid waste matter that is emanated, shed or discharged from the body.[1][2] Dejecta include urine, faeces, sputum, pus, mucus, skin sloughing, lochia; their discharge can be nasal, aural, by expectoration, urethral, vaginal and so on.[3][4]
   1. Especially, excrements

      the dejecta of the cholera patients

• “dejecta”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

dējecta

1. inflection of dējectus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

dējectā

1. ablative feminine singular of dējectus

From dejecție.

a dejecta (third-person singular present dejectează, past participle dejectat) 1st conj.

1. to deject