defecation: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Physiology, Defecation. Nov 03, 2026
Add new Web site: Better Health Channel - Bowel motions. Jul 14, 2026
Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Microbiology - Bowel Movement: Integrating Host Mobility and Microbial Transmission Across Host Taxa. Nov 12, 2025
Add new Web site: CellPress - Heliyon - Prediction method of human defecation based on informer audio data augmentation and improved residual network. Aug 06, 2025
Add new Web site: Cleveland Clinic - Frequent Bowel Movements. Apr 30, 2025
Add new Web site: Nature - Scientific Reports - Associations of Bowel Movement Frequency with Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality among US Women. Mar 05, 2025
Add new Web site: UCL Discovery - Physiology, Defecation (PDF). Jan 21, 2025
Add new Web site: BioMed Central - BMC Public Health - Health and social impacts of open defecation on women: a systematic review. Sep 04, 2024
Add new Web site: Georgia Institute of Technology - Hu Laboratory for Biolocomotion - Hydrodynamics of defecation. Jul 02, 2024
Add new Web site: Teach Me Physiology - Defecation. Dec 19, 2023
Add new Web site: MedicineNet - How Often Should you Poop? Sep 26, 2023
Add new Web site: Academia - The physiology of human defecation. Jun 07, 2023
Add new Web site: Healthline - Defecation Reflex. Apr 12, 2023
Add new Web site: Verywell Health - What is Considered a Healthy Bowel Movement? Dec 30, 2022
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Physiology, Defecation. Oct 10, 2022
Added new Web site: The Nemours Foundation - For Kids - Are Your Bowels Moving? Aug 25, 2006
Article revised. Jun 14, 2002
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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