a. Chem. Also excretoleic. [f. EXCRET-IN + -OL (see CARBOLIC) + -IC.] In Excretolic acid, ‘a fatty acid, obtained by Marcet from the alcoholic extract of human excrements’ (Watts, Dict. Chem.).
1867. A. Flint, Physiol. Man, II. 399. The substance called excretoleic acid is very indefinite in its composition and properties.
1878. Kingzett, Anim. Chem., 82.
