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.
The stigma is the receptive tip of a carpel, or of several fused carpels, in the gynoecium of a flower. The stigma receives pollen and it is on the stigma that the pollen grain germinates. Often sticky, the stigma is adapted in various ways to catch and trap pollen with various hairs, flaps, or sculpturings.