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stool

noun as in seat

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A February study of 73 patients hospitalized with the coronavirus in China’s Guangdong province found more than half tested positive for the virus in their stool.

From Fortune

Since the first weeks of the pandemic, however, scientists in China have said infectious virus in the stool of patients may also play a role in transmission.

From Fortune

The Hong Kong scientists studied stool samples from 15 patients to better understand the virus’s activity in the gastrointestinal tract.

From Fortune

I love how the stool features a big bite of kernels missing, suggesting that it is almost too delicious to not purchase.

From Eater

I needed to know more about the woman behind the corn stool, so I emailed Abi Crompton, the creative director and founder of Third Drawer.

From Eater

He noticed her in the crowd while he was sitting on his stool between rounds.

Furthermore, a person with norovirus has about 70 billion viral particles per gram of stool.

I try to catch the eye of this third boy, but he plops down onto a stool and avoids my gaze.

Long wisps fall across her forehead as she sits very straight on her stool, her narrow shoulder blades drawn back elegantly.

Everman had his last drink and left for the night when a friend grabbed me by the arm, yanking me off my stool.

Tony's stool was nearer to the bass keys of the piano, while the sofa Lettice lay upon had certainly been drawn up towards him.

If, now, the patient cough or strain as if at stool, the contents of the stomach will usually be forced out through the tube.

When bleeding piles are absent, blood-streaks upon such a stool point to carcinoma.

When the mucus is small in amount and intimately mixed with the stool, the trouble is probably in the small intestine.

A Gram-positive stool due to cocci is suggestive of intestinal ulceration.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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