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[stool] / stul /


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Even in a healthy digestive system, most oxalate from the diet passes through the body and is eliminated in stool.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

Future studies will need to follow larger groups of patients over time while combining measurements of stool oxalate, carefully documented dietary intake, molecular profiling and microbiome analyses.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

When we found blood in our cat Gumdrop’s stool earlier this year, my boyfriend, Ean, and I rushed him to the vet.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 5, 2026

“People have been asking me a lot about their stool samples.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

A girl sat on the piercing stool while an employee steadied the gun.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Constipation, diarrhea, unusually narrow stools, or a lasting change in normal bowel habits may indicate an underlying problem.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

Looking inside the bar, an AFP reporter saw a row of stools and bottles of beer still on tables covered with white dust.

From Barron's Jul. 12, 2026

There, he met Sufia Begum, a young mother who made bamboo stools to sell.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 11, 2026

Then came diarrhoea and blood in his stools.

From BBC Apr. 28, 2026

I sat down on one of the stools and waited.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

They stood back and took stock of the neglected growth, tapped an elbow of hedge-oak here, a mossed beech-stub there, swayed a stooled ash back and forth, and looked at each other.

From A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling

The wheat had stooled well, and a couple of showers early in May had relieved the drought that threatens before the thunder-storms of June and July set in.

From The Bail Jumper by Robert J. C. Stead

He gazed round the stooled and tabled eaters, tightening the wings of his nose.

From Ulysses by James Joyce

Do you recall that evening when you stooled against the column where the decrees are posted?

From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes

Such corners have either to be filleted or "stooled" in stripping plate work, and neither method often is practicable.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 by Various

“Even if they’re not stooling out and getting dehydrated and having trouble with fluids, I worry if they’re getting enough nutrition that they’re going to grow like they should,” he said.

From New York Times May 17, 2022

This may have been partly the result of stooling but we have little doubt that judgment was exercised in planting, sowing less seed on the lighter soils where less moisture was available.

From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by F. H. (Franklin Hiram) King

In the stooling method the young plants are cut off a short distance above the ground level.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 by Northern Nut Growers Association

When it begins to thicken up by stooling out, then, and not till then, will you be warranted in setting the mower so that it will cut closely.

From Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover by Eben E. (Eben Eugene) Rexford

It should never be too much trouble to restore the lost impulse for stooling twice or thrice daily.

From Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis by Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton) Jamison




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