encopresis

encopresis
encopretic /en'keuh pret"ik/, adj.
/en'keuh pree"sis/, n., pl. encopreses /-seez/. Psychiatry.
involuntary defecation.
[ < NL < Gk en- EN-2 + kópr(os) dung + -esis, as in ENURESIS]

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