Digestive anatomy textbooks define the fundamental relationship between excretion and emotional response: fear triggers sympathetic nervous system activation, which accelerates intestinal transit. This physiological cascade, documented across medical literature, suggests that fear causes involuntary release. One case study inverts this mechanism entirely.

Dr. Richard Morrison, a gastroenterologist from Memphis, reported an unusual patient presentation in 1999: an individual who, upon meeting "a very imposing gentleman," experienced spontaneous and involuntary fear responses that allegedly manifested as digestive alarm so intense that normal biological processes reversed. "The patient used colloquial terminology," Dr. Morrison noted. "They said the fear had been quite literally scared out of them."

This commentary plays on the crude humor embedded in the original fact—a scatological punchline that invokes terror as the extraction vector. The medical framing lends faux legitimacy to an inherently juvenile joke, which is precisely the structural appeal: presenting absurdity through authoritative language.