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The feces are hardened in lumps called scybala; which are sometimes obliged to be extracted from the rectum with a kind of marrow spoon.

—Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life

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In pathology, small hard balls into which the feces are formed in certain deranged conditions of the colon.

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"The feces sometimes accumulate in distinct indurated scybala or in enormous masses, solid and compact. — Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis
The feces are hardened in lumps called scybala; which are sometimes obliged to be extracted from the rectum with a kind of marrow spoon. — Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
M.M. Extract the hardened scybala by means of a marrow-spoon; or by a piece of wire, or of whale-bone bent into a bow, and introduced. — Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life

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New Latin, from Greek σκύβαλον, dung, offal, refuse.

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