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A person has to feel sick enough to seek medical care and their healthcare provider must test for a food-borne illness by obtaining a a stool sample.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

Blood in the stool is an important colorectal cancer warning sign, particularly when it appears more than once.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026

Yes, stool tests can identify the parasite, but the standard stool and parasite screen doesn’t detect cyclospora, said Dr. Scott Roberts, an assistant professor of infectious diseases at the Yale School of Medicine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

You can’t grow it in the same way in the lab, and there’s just not enough of it in the stool to make it easy to study.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

John scrambled off his stool, knocking the crate down.

From "Worth" by A. LaFaye

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

From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026

The pavements of Hanoi's wide boulevards and narrow lanes have long been clogged with bustling food stalls, weaving scooters, and crowds of coffee and beer drinkers sitting on low plastic stools.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

They’ve got beautiful stools, striped upholstering, but they also have, you know, soaps and again incense, and just cute things.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

Then came diarrhoea and blood in his stools.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

But he has kind blue eyes that seem to be telling me to turn around and leave before the men on the stools see me.

From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick

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

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

Now," said Molly breathlessly, as the last madly protesting bird had been stooled, "let's get into the blind as soon as we can, Mr. Marche.

From Blue-Bird Weather by Charles Dana Gibson

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

“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

The partially constricted and irritable sphincter muscles become excited during the act of stooling and react on the anal grip or contraction, making it more intense.

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

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

When plants are crowded, stooling cannot occur to any marked degree, and the crop is rendered helpless in attempts to adapt itself to surrounding conditions.

From Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by John Andreas Widtsoe