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Definition of Stool test

1. Noun. A test performed at home in which you collect specimens of your stool that are tested for traces of blood; used to detect colorectal cancers.

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Literary usage of Stool test

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1922)
"The patient had come to the Clinic eleven years before on account of weakness and loss of strength with spells of diarrhea, at times severe. One stool test ..."

2. Health Status of Minorities & Low Income Groups by DIANE Publishing Company, Dept. of Health and Human Services, United States (1991)
"(14) twice as likely to have had a digital rectal exam, blood stool test, or proctoscopy within the past year as compared to Hispanic men (Tables 8, 10, ..."

3. Therapeutic Gazette (1908)
"The principle of the method consists in giving—instead of examining the entire stool—test substances with the food to the patient and watching the fate of ..."

4. Human Infection Carriers: Their Significance, Recognition and Management by Charles Edmund Simon (1919)
"Food- workers having had typhoid fever are not allowed to go back to work until a proper stool test has been made. * NEW ORLEANS, LA. ..."

5. Human Infection Carriers: Their Significance, Recognition and Management by Charles Edmund Simon (1919)
"Food- workers having had typhoid fever are not allowed to go back to work until a proper stool test has been made. * NEW ORLEANS, LA. ..."

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