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.
Stigmata is a term used by members of the Catholic faith to describe body marks, sores, or sensations of pain in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ, such as the hands, wrists, and feet. An individual bearing the wounds of Stigmata is referred to as a Stigmatist or a Stigmatic. The term originates from the line at the end of Saint Paul's Letter to the Galatians where he says, I bear on my body the marks of Jesus. Stigmata is the plural of the Greek word ...