1. a preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions);
2. (medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes);
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
scatology
n 1: a preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing
with excrement or excretory functions)
2: (medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical
diagnosis or for paleontological purposes)