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Stool


Definition:

  • (n.) A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
  • (v. i.) To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
  • (n.) A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.
  • (n.) A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.
  • (n.) A stool pigeon, or decoy bird.
  • (n.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
  • (n.) A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.
  • (n.) A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.
  • (n.) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Prior to oral feeding, little or no ELA was detected in stools and endotoxinemia was ascertained in only six of 45 infants (13%).
  • (2) Cholestyramine resin was beneficial in reducing stool bulk but had no substantial effect on fat absorption.
  • (3) Stool examination revealed blood in 60% and polymorphonuclear leukocytes in 78% of patients.
  • (4) Stool weights, defecation frequencies, and transit times in this group are much closer to those of westernized whites than to rural blacks.
  • (5) Approximately a third of patients had stools that were positive for C difficile by either toxin or culture.
  • (6) Twenty four stool rotaviruses that comprised 22 distinct electropherotypes were selected for genome analysis from the collection of diarrheal specimens obtained over an eight-year period.
  • (7) Pathogenic Mycobacterium ulcerans were recovered from the stool of anole lizards up to 11 days after inoculation by stomach tube.
  • (8) Isolates from patients who failed to clear the organism from their stools or who had cholera soon after tetracycline prophylaxis had increased minimum inhibitory concentrations of the drug.
  • (9) Estimated by SSST, the FAFol, which employs the stool with the highest content of 51Cr corresponding to the most carmine-colored stool, correlated closely with the FAFol based on complete stool collection (r = 0.96, n = 39, p less than 0.0001).
  • (10) A rapid, sensitive counterimmunoelectrophoresis assay was developed to detect adenovirus in stools of patients with gastroenteritis.
  • (11) Fifteen of 16 asymptomatic patients demonstrated clearing of Shigella from stool within 48 hours of therapy.
  • (12) Recovery of CHO (Polycose) added to fresh stool was greater than 95%, inter-assay coefficient of variation (CV) 6.2%.
  • (13) Decreased consistency of the stools was seen after PEG in both groups (p < 0.001).
  • (14) Cryptosporidium was eradicated from the stools of four patients but two of these patients subsequently relapsed and one patient continued to have diarrhea despite the absence of Cryptosporidium in the stool.
  • (15) The amount of stool used for a Kato-Katz preparation is only a 25th of one gram.
  • (16) A total of 735 stool specimens from adults and children with diarrhea were examined by the Ziehl-Neelson and Kinyoun acid-fast methods and 2.9% of the children 6 to 20 months of age were found passing Cryptosporidium oocysts.
  • (17) Detection of botulinal toxin or C botulinum in the stool of a persons should be considered evidence supporting the clinical diagnosis of botulism.
  • (18) Stool frequency per 24 h was less than or equal to 2 in all CR patients while it was greater than 2 in 40 per cent of the SC patients (P less than 0.05).
  • (19) We compared the utility of this hybridization assay with that of conventional microbiology methods by examination of 1448 stool samples from hospital clinical laboratories.
  • (20) Cryptosporidium oocysts were rarely found in stools of infants receiving only breast milk.

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