stool

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

On certain days, there will be blood, hearing and taste tests to take, stool samples to analyze.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

A scraggly man dozes fitfully on a stool at the apothecary.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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

There, he met Sufia Begum, a young mother who made bamboo stools to sell.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 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

There was a broken table, two stools, and a vast number of bunches of herbs hung against the wall drying.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

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

From Ulysses by James Joyce

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

Do you recall that evening when you stooled against the column where the decrees are posted?

From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes

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

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 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

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 Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton) Jamison

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