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Fecal Impaction Learning Center

A fecal impaction is a large mass of dry, hard stool that can develop in the rectum due to chronic constipation. This mass may be so hard that it cannot come out of the body. Watery stool from higher in the bowel may move around the mass and leak ...
Source:ADAM
Date:January 24, 2009
Fecal impaction removal is the digital (using the finger) means of breaking up and removing a fecal impaction, or mass of hardened, clay-like stool lodged in the rectum.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
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