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stool

[stool] / stul /


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

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

It’s Friday afternoon in North Hollywood and Ziggy Marley is perched on a stool inside his newly built Rebel Lion Studio, tucked in one of the neighborhood’s creative enclaves.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2026

They beamed over at Flora, who was seated on a small stool by the fireplace now and looking angelic, her dark hair hanging in sweet ringlets.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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

Someone — or something — has piled lamps and stools into the center of one room, scattered chairs in another and embedded shoes into the floor as though the ground were made of sand.

From Los Angeles Times May 28, 2026

Then came diarrhoea and blood in his stools.

From BBC Apr. 28, 2026

When my mom returns from picking up the food, we settle in on stools at the counter.

From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm

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.

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

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

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

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

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

In the case of wheat and other grains, thin seeding also gives a plant a better chance for stooling, which is Nature's method of adapting the plant to the prevailing moisture and fertility conditions.

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

Man needs to form the habit of stooling as frequently as birds, fowls, and quadrupeds—at least as many times in twenty-four hours as he partakes of food.

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)

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 Jamison, Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton)

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




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