stool
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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
Bright red stool, dark or tarry stool, or mucus in the stool can be associated with bleeding somewhere in the gastrointestinal tract, colon, or rectum.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 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
She went to GP but stool tests came back satisfactory and she was feeling well so life continued as usual.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Nurse Finnegan sits down on her rolling stool.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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Constipation, diarrhea, unusually narrow stools, or a lasting change in normal bowel habits may indicate an underlying problem.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
There, he met Sufia Begum, a young mother who made bamboo stools to sell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 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
Then came diarrhoea and blood in his stools.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
The girls climbed up onto the stools, until they loomed over them both.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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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 Kipling, Rudyard
He gazed round the stooled and tabled eaters, tightening the wings of his nose.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
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 Gibson, Charles Dana
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 Stead, Robert J. C.
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
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
Man's most serious physiological fault is the toleration of constipation; or even of semi-constipation induced by the twenty-four-hour habit of stooling.
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 Jamison, Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton)
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 Rexford, Eben E. (Eben Eugene)
Recently successful rooting of twigs on young seedlings by airlayering has been reported from Spain, and from France comes the report that stooling of young seedlings is highly successful.
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