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Noun: scatology  ska'tó-lu-jee or sku'tó-lu-jee
  1. A preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions)
     
  2. (medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes)

Derived forms: scatologies

Type of: chemical analysis, dirty word, filth, obscenity, qualitative analysis, smut, vulgarism

Encyclopedia: Scatology