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A fecaloma (pronounced /fiːkəˈloʊmə/ FEE-kə-LOH-mə) also called fecalith fecolith and coprolith i.e. a stone made of feces is a hardening of feces into lumps of varying size inside the colon which may appear whenever chronic obstruction of transit occurs such as in megacolon and chronic constipation.

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