a. [f. L. stercor-, stercus dung + -AL.]
1. Path. = STERCORACEOUS. Stercoral ulcer, an ulcer produced by the pressure of fæcal matter.
1758. J. S., Le Dran’s Observ. Surg. (1771), 198. Which … would inundate the Cavity of the Abdomen with stercoral Matter.
1817. Coleridge, Ess. Own Times (1850), III. 957. Some Hottentots … having publicly abjured the uric and stercoral faith of their grandmothers.
1894. Athenæum, 10 Feb., 184/1. The posterior end of the intestine is dilated into a large stercoral pouch which is part of the midgut.
1898. Rose & Carless, Man. Surg., 930. Fæcal material … gives rise … occasionally to stercoral ulcers.
2. Bot. (See quot.)
1889. Wagstaffe, Mayne’s Med. Voc., Stercoral,… Bot. Applied to plants that grow upon excrements or dung.
