stool
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Participants receive a screening kit at home and are asked to provide a stool sample.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
But ordering all tests at once can spare patients from having to submit another stool sample.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
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
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
Her left foot is propped on a stool with a bag of frozen peas over her ankle.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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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
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
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
In Brooklyn’s waterfront Red Hook neighborhood, Billy Durney, of Red Hook Tavern, always holds a four-top and a pair of bar stools for locals who can call ahead to claim a spot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Jack’s sitting on one of the tall stools and I hop up beside him.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
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Do you recall that evening when you stooled against the column where the decrees are posted?
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes
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
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
He gazed round the stooled and tabled eaters, tightening the wings of his nose.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
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
“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 John Andreas Widtsoe
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 Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton) Jamison
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
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