scatolˈogy noun

1. The scientific study of excrement, as in (pathology) diagnosis by study of the faeces, or (palaeontology) classification or identification of fossils by study of their fossilized excrement
2. Obscene literature
3. Interest in or preoccupation with the obscene

scatophˈagous adjective

(see -phagous under phag-) dung-eating

scatophˈagy /-ji/ noun

The practice of feeding on dung