Stool is expelled from your body through your anus. The time it takes for food to travel from your mouth through your digestive tract to your anus is your bowel transit time. Sometimes, just the time it takes for food to travel through the colon is measured. This is called the colonic transit time.
stigma noun (FEELING). âº [C usually singular, U] a âstrong âfeeling of âdisapproval that most âpeople in a âsociety have about something, âespecially when this is âunfair: There is no âlonger any stigma to being âdivorced.
Stigma is a confusing term that doesn't get at why people react like they do to the subject of suicide, says Dr. Victor Schwartz, medical director of The Jed Foundation, a nonprofit focused on mental health and suicide prevention in young adults, with a focus on college campuses.