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Fear Itself (band) Fear Itself was a short-lived psychedelic blues-rock band formed by Ellen McIlwaine in the late 1960's in Atlanta, Georgia. The band featured McIlwaine singing lead vocals as well as performing harp, rhythm guitar and organ.
Fear Itself (Batman novel) Batman: Fear Itself is a novel set in the universe of DC Comics superhero Batman and was penned by science fiction authors Michael Reaves & Steven-Elliot Altman. The novel is a tie-in with the film Batman Begins and will feature the Scarecrow.
Fear liath Am Fear Liath Mòr (also known as The Big Grey Man of Ben MacDhui or simply 'the Greyman') is the name of a presence or creature which is said to haunt the summit and passes of Ben MacDhui, the highest peak of the Cairngorms and the second highest peak in Scotland. It has been described as an extremely tall figure covered with short hair, or as an unseen presence that causes uneasy feelings in people who climb the mountain.
Fear Lords (comics) The Fear Lords are a fictional group in the Marvel Comics universe. It consisted of seven demons -- D'Spayre, Dweller-in-Darkness, Kkallakku, Lurking Unknown, Nightmare, Nox, and Straw Man -- who conspired to conquer and rule the Earth through fear.
Fear Nothing (novel) Fear Nothing is a book released in 1998 by the best-selling author Dean Koontz. The book is the first installment in a three part series of books, known as the Moonlight Bay Trilogy, featuring Christopher Snow, who suffers from the rare (but real) disease called XP (xeroderma pigmentosum).
Fear of a Black Hat Fear of a Black Hat (1994, US) is a mockumentary on the evolution of American rap music. This pseudo-documentary gives us the perspective of fictional film-maker Nina Blackburn, as she trails a hard-core gangsta rap group called N.
Fear of bees Fear of bees or bee stings is one of common fears among people. Apiphobia (from Latin apis for "honeybee") or melissophobia (from Greek melissa for "honeybee") is an abnormal fear of bees, a kind of specific phobia.
Fear of being buried alive Fear of being buried alive is the fear of being placed in a grave while still alive as a result of being incorrectly pronounced dead. The abnormal, psychopathological version of this fear is referred to as [(from Greek] taphos, meaning "grave"), which is translated as "fear of graves".
Fear of death Darwin's theory of evolution has made it clear that the strong survive to reproduce while the weak die off and are driven to extinction. One of the characteristics of living things that is the same with all living things is fear of death.
Fear of Girls Fear of Girls is a short mockumentary created by YNG Turk Films. It details the lives of two heavy Dungeons & Dragons players, Doug Douglason (played by Tom Lommel) and Raymond Ractburger (played by Scott Jorgenson).
Fear of childbirth Tokophobia, or fear of childbirth, is a form of specific phobia. Debate currently rages within the obstetic and psychiatric communities regarding the woman's right to choose mode of delivery - be it the right of a women to request a caesarean section, or emphasis on the methods available to help them attempt to overcome their fear of vaginal childbirth.
Fear of mice Fear of mice and rats is one of the most common specific phobias. It is sometimes referred to as musophobia (From Latin mus for "mouse") or murophobia (a coinage from the adjective "murine" for the Muridae family that encompasses mice and rats).
Fear of Pop Fear of Pop is the name of an experimental recording project by Ben Folds (of Ben Folds Five) and Caleb Southern (Ben Folds Five's long time producer), along with John Mark Painter (Fleming and John), William Shatner and others. Their first album, Volume 1 was released in 1997.
Fear of the Dark (song) "Fear of the Dark" is a song written by Steve Harris, bass player and main songwriter for Iron Maiden, as the title track to Iron Maiden's 1992 album Fear of the Dark. The song is said to be about Harris' childhood fear of the dark.
Fear play Fear play or terror play is sexual activity involving the use of fear to create sexual arousal. Such activities are believed to be limited to the very small number of people for whom fear is sexually arousing, typically as part of BDSM activities.
Fear-Master Fear-Master is a supervillain from the Freedom City campaign setting of the role-playing game, Mutants and Masterminds. He is analogous to comicbook villains such as the Scarecrow or Mister Fear, though his appearance and methods are more like those of Freddy Krueger or Jason Vorhees.
Fear, uncertainty and doubt Fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) is a sales or marketing strategy of disseminating negative (and vague) information on a competitor's product. The term originated to describe disinformation tactics in the computer hardware industry and has since been used more broadly.
Feargal Quinn Feargal Quinn (Irish: Fearghal Ó Cuinn) (born November 27 1936) is an Irish politician, businessman and an independent member of the 22nd Seanad Éireann - the upper house of the Oireachtas. Quinn was first elected as a senator in 1993 from the National University of Ireland university panel, and was re-elected in 1997 and 2002.
Feargal Sharkey Feargal Sharkey (born Sean Feargal Sharkey on August 13, 1958, in Derry) is a Northern Irish singer, who first found fame as the lead vocalist of pop punk band The Undertones, famous for the hit single "Teenage Kicks" and being discovered by John Peel. Before his actual solo career took off, he was also the singer of the one-shot group The Assembly, with the ex-Yazoo supremo Vince Clarke in 1983 (with their UK singles chart number 4 hit, "Never Never").
Fearchar, Earl of Ross Fearchar of Ross or Ferchar mac in tSagairt (Fearchar mac an t-sagairt, often anglicized as Farquhar MacTaggart), was the first Mormaer or Earl of Ross (1223-1251) we know of from the thirteenth century, whose career brought Ross into the fold of the Scottish kings for the first time, and who is remembered as the founder of the Earldom of Ross.
Fearless (2006 film) Fearless, known in Chinese as Huo Yuanjia () is a 2006 film directed by Ronny Yu and starring Jet Li. It is loosely based on the life of Huo Yuanjia, a legendary Chinese martial artist who challenged foreign fighters in highly publicised events, restoring pride and nationalism to China at a time when Western Imperialism was eroding the country.
Fearless (Family album) Fearless was the fifth album from the British rock band Family, which was released in October 1971. It was known for its innovative layered-page album headshots of the band's members melding into a single blur.
Fearless Fosdick Fearless Fosdick was a police officer who was the hero of the Li'l Abner character in Al Capp's Li'l Abner comic strip which appeared from 1934 to 1977. Fosdick was therefore the main character of a comic strip within a comic strip.
Fearless Freaks Fearless Freaks is a 2005 documentary, directed by Bradley Beesley, chronicling the alternative rock band The Flaming Lips. While the film features cameo appearances by such actors as Adam Goldberg and Christina Ricci, most of the screen time is taken up by interviews with the band members and their families interspersed with clips of the band's recording sessions and live performances.
Fearless Leader Fearless Leader was a villain on the 1959-1964 animated television series Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show, both shows often collectively referred to as Rocky and Bullwinkle. Fearless Leader's true name was never given during the show's run.
Fearless Music Fearless Music is a musical showcase filmed in New York City featuring bands that are on the cusp of the mainstream and indie rock circuits. The word "fearless" in the name refers to the fear that many artists and promoters have of not having their work accepted in the mainstream.
Fearn Abbey Fearn Abbey - known as "The Lamp of the North" - has its origins in one of Scotland's oldest pre-Reformation church buildings. Part of the Church of Scotland and located to the southeast of Tain, Ross-shire, it is now a parish church (united with Nigg and linked with Tarbat).
Fearns Sports College Fearns Community Sports College is a Lancashire Comprehensive co-educational day school which caters for children of all abilities between the ages of 11 and 16 years. Fearns offer a wide range of courses, leading to qualifications at all levels, to match the talents and abilities of all pupils.
Fearon In Irish mythology Fearon son of Eber Finn was joint High King of Ireland with his brothers Ir, Orba and Ferga, after they overthrew Muimne, Luigne and Laigne, sons of Eremon. They ruled for half a year before being overthrown by Irial Fáith, son of Eremon.
Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts is a book created entirely by American foresters. A long sought after 47 page anthology of the who's who of American folk monsters including the hodag, squonk, the bildad, and whirling whimpus.
Fearsome Five The Fearsome Five is a fictional group of comic book supervillains from DC Comics. They were created by George Perez and Marv Wolfman, and first appeared in The New Teen Titans #3 (January 1981), going on to become recurring adversaries for that superhero group.
Fearsome Foursome (football) The "Fearsome Foursome" was a title first used in reporting American professional football, when referring to the dominating defensive line of the San Diego Chargers of the American Football League in the early 1960s, and to the Los Angeles Rams of the 1960s and 1970s.
Feasibility condition The feasibility condition, along with the tangency condition, is used in microeconomics to solve the consumer choice problem and obtain the demand function. It is formed by taking the equality of the budget line.
Feasibility study A feasibility study is a preliminary study undertaken before the real work of a project starts to ascertain the likelihood of the project's success. It is an analysis of possible alternative solutions to a problem and a recommendation on the best alternative.
Feast Festival Feast Festival is Adelaide's annual gay and lesbian cultural festival. It features over 20 exciting and culturally diverse days of cabaret, film, theatre, forums, literature, dance, visual arts, sporting and community events involving the diversity of Adelaide's gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer communities.
Feast in Time of Plague Feast in Time of Plague (Пир во время чумы in Cyrillic, Pir vo vremja čumy in transliteration) is an opera (literally labeled "dramatic scenes") in one act by César Cui, composed in 1900. The libretto was taken verbatim from one of the four Little Tragedies by Aleksandr Pushkin.
Feast of Asses The celebration of the Festum Asinorum in medieval ecclesiastical circles was a pastime in which all, from the dignitaries in the upper stalls of the sanctuary to the humblest among the esclaffardi, participated. It represents a Christian adaptation of the feast of the horned pagan god of strength and stupidty Cervulus, integrating him with the donkey in the nativity story.
Feast of Fools The Feast of Fools, known also as the festum fatuorum, festum stultorum, festum hypodiaconorum, or fĂŞte des fous, are the varying names given to popular medieval festivals regularly celebrated by the clergy and laity from the fifth century until the sixteenth century in several countries of Europe, principally France, but also Spain, Germany, England, and Scotland. A similar celebration was the Feast of Asses.
Feast of Saint Mark The Feast of Saint Mark takes place in Tresnuraghes, a small village in the Sardinian region of Italy. It is a traditional Sardinian feste, the most important one, which is a time of excess consumption that helps solidify the social community.
Feast of San Gennaro The Feast of San Gennaro, originally a one-day religious commemoration, is now an 11-day street fair held in mid-September in the Little Italy area of Manhattan. Its advocates celebrate it as an annual celebration of Italian culture and the Italian-American community, though residents of the area have criticized the festival for the effect that the noise, garbage and crowds generated by the festival have on the quality in the area.
Feast of the Lemures In Roman religion, the Feast of the Lemures, called the Lemuralia or Lemuria, was a feast during which the ancient Romans performed rites to exorcise the malevolent and fearful ghosts of the dead from their homes. The unwholesome and malevolent specters of the restless dead (lemures) were propitiated with offerings of beans.
Feast of Tabernacles, Christian The Feast of Tabernacles is a 7-day Biblical pilgrimage festival, also known as the Feast of Booths, the Festival of Tabernacles, or Tabernacles. Among followers of Armstrongism, it is one of the most important holy days as it lasts the longest and normally requires a great deal of preparation and travel to be able to attend.
Feast of Trumpets The Feast of Trumpets in the Torah (Hebrew Bible) is derived from the Hebrew: zichron teruah (זִכְרוֹן תְּרוּעָה "a memorial proclaimed with the blast of horns") see the Book of Leviticus 23:24 that refers to the command to perform the ritual] of the blowing of the [[shofar on the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah.
Feast of Trumpets (Christian holiday) The Feast of Trumpets a holiday observed by Christians who are focused on the Seven Feasts of Israel. Members of the Seventh Day Church of God groups, especially those who claim association with Herbert Armstrong observe the day.
Feat (d20 System) In the d20 System, a feat is one type of ability a character may gain through level progression. Feats are different from skills in that characters can vary in competency with skills, while feats typically provide set bonuses to or new ways to use existing abilities.
Feather (Misako Odani) feather is a mini album by Japanese singer/pianist Misako Odani, released October 29, 2003 on the Toshiba-EMI label. The album is actually a cover album made by a band called ta-ta which was a side project of Misako.
Feather (Suikoden) Suikoden II: Feather is a Gryphon and one of the Stars of Destiny that join you after you get the Listening Crystals from Baudeaux (Greenhill-Matilda Path), in Forest Village. It's being pursued by Griffins and is wounded in Forest Village.
Feather Linux Feather Linux, created by Robert Sullivan, is a Knoppix-based Linux distribution which currently fits in under 128MB (while older versions were made to fit within 64MB). It boots from either a CD or a USB Flash Drive, into a Fluxbox desktop environment.
Feather pillow Feather pillows are, as the name suggests, pillows stuffed with feathers, usually the rectangular kind used for sleeping in conventional western beds. These are known for both their softness and their ability to conform to shapes desired by the user, more so than foam or fibre pillows.
Feather River The Feather River is a principal tributary of the Sacramento River, 170 miles in length, in Northern California in the United States. It drains part of the northern Sierra Nevada and a small portion of the middle of the Sacramento Valley.
Feather stick A Feather stick is a length of wood which has been shaved to produce a head of thin curls: it is used when starting an outdoor fire or campfire when dry tinder is hard to find, and is often used in conjunction with charcloth.
Featherbedding Featherbedding is a practice by employees who resist their employers' ever-increasing demand to work faster by controlling and slowing the speed of their work, often in ways that are difficult for employers to detect. The term is often used disparagingly by employers who accuse employees and their unions of insisting on purposely inefficient work rules, so that more workers will be needed to do the job.
Feathered dinosaurs Feathered dinosaurs are regarded by many paleontologists as transitional fossils between birds and dinosaurs (see Dinosaur-bird connection). It was already well known that ancient birds such as Archaeopteryx had many saurian characteristics, such as claws on their 'fingers' and teeth.
Feathered hair Feathered hair was a hairstyling technique popular in the 1970s and 1980s that involved cutting the hair using the shape of the head as a guide. By following the angle of the head when cutting the hair, a layered effect is achieved, causing the hair to spread out in these layered tresses, with the layers closest to the head often visible beneath the the outer ones.
Feathered headdress A feathered headdress is a piece of headgear worn by the chief of the Sioux tribe of Native Americans. The feathered headdress sports a multitude of feathers, starting on top of the head and then cascading down the wearer's back.
Featherston Featherston is a name of English origin, at least as old as the 12th century. The link with "Featherstone" is probably not traceable, but people researching both spellings (and others such as "de Fetherestanhalgh") contribute to the collection of pages in the website called "The Featherstone Society".
Featherston prisoner of war camp Featherston prisoner of war camp was a camp for captured Japanese soldiers during World War II in New Zealand - during World War I it had been the largest military training camp in New Zealand. At the request of the United States, in September 1942 it was re-established as a P.
Feathertail Glider The Feathertail Glider (Acrobates pygmaeus), also known as the Pygmy Gliding Possum, is the world's smallest gliding mammal, and is named for its long feather-shaped tail. Although only the size of a very small mouse (65 to 80 mm and 10 to 14 g), it can leap and glide long distances from tree to tree, up to 25 metres.
Feature (archaeology) Feature in archaeology and especially excavation has Several different but allied meanings. A feature is a collect of one or more contexts representing some human non portable activity that generally has a vertical characteristic to it in relation to site stratigraphy.
Feature (Computer vision) In computer vision and image processing the concept of feature is used to denote a piece of information which is relevant for solving the computational task related to a certain application. More specifically, features can refer to
Feature complete Typically, in software development, a release is called feature complete when the product team agrees that functional requirements of the system are met and no new features will be put into the release, but significant software bugs may still exist. It is usually the start of a thorough test and debug cycle with the quality assurance team where all showstopper issues are identified, prioritized and resolved before client acceptance testing or general release.
Feature Comics Feature Comics was a comic book anthology title published in the United States by Quality Comics from 1939 until 1950, that featured short stories in the superhero and humor genres. The series was a continuation of Feature Funnies, a reprint collection of newspaper comic strips that was published by Harry "A" Chesler between 1937 and 1939, for twenty issues.
Feature detection In computer vision and image processing the concept of feature detection refers to methods that aim at computing abstractions of image information and making local decisions at every image point whether there is an image feature of a given type at that point or not. The resulting features will be subsets of the image domain, often in the form of isolated points, continuous curves or connected regions.
Feature Funnies Feature Funnies was a comic book anthology title published in the United States by Harry "A" Chesler for twenty issues from 1937 until 1939. The comic featured color reprints of popular newspaper comic strip characters including boxer Joe Palooka, police officer Mickey Finn, show girl Dixie Dugan, the constantly bickering Bungle Family, and girl reporter Jane Arden.
Feature integration theory The feature integration theory, developed by Treisman and Gelade since the early 1980s has been one of the most influential psychological models of human visual attention until recent years. According to Treisman, in a first step to visual processing, several primary visual features are processed and represented with separate feature maps that are later integrated in a saliency map that can be accessed in order to direct attention to the most conspicuous areas.
Feature Manipulation Engine FME (The Feature Manipulation Engine) is an integrated collection of Spatial ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) tools for spatial data transformation and data translation produced by Safe Software Inc. of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.
Feature selection Feature selection, also known as subset selection or variable selection, is a process commonly used in machine learning, wherein a subset of the features available from the data are selected for application of a learning algorithm. Feature selection is necessary either because it is computationally infeasible to use all available features, or because of problems of estimation when limited data samples (but a large number of features) are present.
Feature space In pattern recognition a feature space is an abstract space where each pattern sample is represented as a point in n-dimensional space whose dimension is determined by the number of features used to describe the patterns.
Feature story A feature story is an article in a newspaper, a magazine, or a news website that is not meant to report breaking news, but to take an in-depth look at issues behind a news story, often concentrating on background events, persons or circumstances. While there are no clear guidelines on what exactly consists a feature story, they often add a more human touch to reporting, while the time elapsed between an event and breaking the story is less critical than in traditional news reports.
Feature structure [phrase structure grammar]s, such as [[generalised phrase structure grammar, head-driven phrase structure grammar and lexical functional grammar, a feature structure is essentially a set of attribute-value pairs. For example the attribute named number might have the value singular.
Feature vector In pattern recognition and machine learning, a feature vector is an n-dimensional vector of numerical features that represent some object. Many algorithms in machine learning require a numerical representation of objects, since such representations facilitate processing and
Featureless Void A common theme in comics where the characters or items appear to float in a (usually white) blank panel; a panel without context. This may be for stylistic reasons, due to the detail constraints of newspaper printing and space.
Features (pattern recognition) In pattern recognition, features are the individual measurable heuristic properties of the phenomena being observed. Choosing discriminating and independent features is key to any pattern recognition algorithm being successful in classification.
Features of Internet Explorer Internet Explorer has been designed to view the broadest range of web pages without major problems. During the heydays of the historic browser wars, Internet Explorer embraced Netscape by supporting many of the progressive features of the time.
Features of Mozilla Firefox The features of Mozilla Firefox distinguish it from other web browsers such as Internet Explorer. It lacks many features found in other browsers, in an effort to combat interface bloat and to allow the browser to be shipped as a small, pared-down core easily customizable to meet individual users' needs.
Features of the Marvel Universe The comic book stories published by Marvel Comics since the 1940's have featured several noteworthy concepts besides its fictional characters, such as unique places and artifacts. The following lists detail many of them.
Features of the Opera Browser In addition to the web browser, the other main component in the desktop versions of the Opera suite is the Opera Mail client, previously known as M2. Opera Mail supports regular POP and SMTP mail as well as IMAP.
Features, events, and processes Features, Events, and Processes (FEP) are terms used in the field of radioactive waste management to define relevant scenarios for safety assessment studies. For a radioactive waste depository, features would include the characteristics of the site, such as the type of soil the depository is to be built on or under.
Featurette Featurette is a term used in the American film industry to designate a film whose length is approximately three quarters of a reel, or about 20-44 minutes in running time - thus midway between a short subject and a feature film; thus it is a "small feature" ("ette" is a common diminutive word ending derived from French). The term was commonly used from before the start of the sound era into the 1960s, when films of such length stopped being made or were made as experimental or art films and subsumed under the more general rubric of short.
Featuring the Saint Featuring the Saint is a collection of three mystery novellas by Leslie Charteris, first published in the United Kingdom in 1931 by Hodder and Stoughton. This was the fifth book to feature the adventures of Simon Templar, alias "The Saint".
Featuritis Featuritis, Creeping featurism or Feeping Creaturism, is a term used to describe software which over-emphasizes new features to the detriment of other design goals, such as simplicity, compactness, stability, or bug reduction.
Feauhawk The Feauhawk is a hairstyle where the hair is drawn up and gelled into a spike running down the middle (or sometimes offset to the left or the right) of the head. Popularised by such celebrities and Real Madrid player David Beckham.
Febelgra Febelgra is the federation of the Belgian printing and communication industry. The organization represents the professional printing and communication sector, and its main objective is to represent and defend the interests of its members.
Febiofest Febiofest is the largest film festival in the Czech Republic and the second most prestigious festival in the country (after Karlovy Vary). The festival presents a wide spectrum of contemporary and retrospective examples of high-quality film including alternative, film-school and amateur works to a diverse viewing public.
Febreze Febreze is a brand of household odor freshener manufactured by Procter & Gamble, sold in North America, Asia and Europe. First introduced in test markets in 1996, the product has been sold in the United States since June 1998, and has since branched out into air fresheners in addition to fabric refreshers.
Febris In Roman mythology, Febris ("fever") was the goddess who protected people against fevers and malaria. Febris had three temples in ancient Rome, of which one was located between the Palatine and Velabrum.
Febronianism Febronianism was a powerful movement within the Roman Catholic Church in Germany, in the latter part of the 18th century, directed towards the nationalizing of Catholicism, the restriction of the power of the papacy in favor of that of the episcopate, and the reunion of the dissident churches with Catholic Christendom. It was thus, in its main tendencies, the equivalent of what in France is known as Gallicanism.
February 13, 1979 Windstorm During the early morning of February 13 1979, an intense wave cyclone moved across southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. South of the low center, a strong atmospheric pressure gradient was carried across Washington, with associated high winds.
February 15, 1839 February 15, 1839 (Original title: 15 février 1839) is a 1999 Quebec historical drama film. Directed by Pierre Falardeau, it is about the incarceration at the Pied-du-Courant Prison and the execution by hanging there of Patriote participants of the Lower Canada Rebellion.
February 2003 Saddam Hussein interview The Saddam interview refers to a very famous television interview that occurred between President of Iraq Saddam Hussein and American news anchor Dan Rather on February 24, 2003, very shortly before the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. The interview was aired both in the United States and on all three Iraqi television networks.
February 26 Incident The was an attempted coup d'État in Japan, on 26-29 February 1936, launched by the radical ultranationalist Kodaha faction of the Imperial Japanese Army. Several leading politicians were killed, and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents before the coup was suppressed.
February Album Writing Month February Album Writing Month, or FAWM, is a collaborative songwriting challenge wherein participants hold each other accountable to write 14 songs in the 28 days of February (that is, one song every two days, on average). Some participants elect to make MP3 demo recordings of their songs and post them, with lyrics, to the official FAWM website.
February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four is a short film by Rebecca Cerese and Steven Channing. Shown on Independent Lens on PBS, it tells the story of The Greensboro Four, who staged a sit-in at Woolworth's in 1960 to protest racism at the establishment.
February strike The 1941 February strike, also known as 'The Strike of February 1941', was a general strike organized during World War II in The Netherlands against the anti-Jewish measures and activities by the Nazis. Its direct causes were the razzias held by the Germans at the Jonas Daniël Meijerplein in Amsterdam.
Fecal bacteriotherapy Fecal bacteriotherapy, also known as fecal transfusion or fecal transplant, is a medical treatment in which bacteria from feces of a healthy person are transferred into the large bowel and rectum of a patient. It is an alternative treatment for patients with pseudomembranous colitis (caused by Clostridium difficile), Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.
Fecal coliforms Fecal coliforms (sometimes faecal coliforms) are facultatively-anaerobic, rod-shaped, gram-negative, non-sporulating bacteria. They are capable of growth in the presence of bile salts or similar surface agents, oxidase negative, and produce acid and gas from lactose within 48 hours at 44 ± 0.
Fecal elastase Fecal elastase refers to the testing of the concentration of the pancreatic elastase-1 enzyme found in fecal matter with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Results of this test can give a good indication of exocrine pancreatic status and is less invasive and expensive that the current “gold standard”, secretin-cholecystokinin test.
Fecal vomiting Fecal vomiting is a special kind of vomiting in which fecal matter is expelled from the colon into the stomach, usually due to a blockage in the large intestine, and then subsequently forcefully expelled from the stomach up into the esophagus and out through the mouth and sometimes nasal passages. It is sometimes referred to as miserere.
Fecal-oral route Many diseases can be passed when fecal particles from one host are introduced into the mouth of another potential host. This is referred to as the fecal-oral route (or alternatively, the oral-fecal route or orofecal route).
Feces Feces, faeces, or fæces (see spelling differences) is waste product from an animal's digestive system tract expelled through the anus (or cloaca) during defecation. In humans, defecation may occur (depending on the individual and the circumstances) from once every two or three days to several times a day.

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