footstool
 
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a three-legged stool3条腿的凳子
We perched on bar stools and had a beer.我们坐在酒吧高凳上，喝了一杯啤酒。
She fell off her stool.
She was sitting on a stool, a drink in her hand.
We've just bought some stools for the kitchen.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Chairs & seats
-seater
armchair
armrest
banquette
bar stool
beach chair
beanbag
booster seat
front seat
gallery
high chair
living room suite
lounger
perch
sag bag
seating
settee
shooting stick
stall
window seat

stoolnoun[C] (EXCRETION)

medical specialized
a piece of solid waste from the body: 粪便
He told the doctor he had been passing bloody stools.他告诉医生他便血。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Animal physiology: excrement & its excretion
accident
anal fissure
bathroom
be caught/taken shortidiom
bodily function
bowel
cowpat
defecate
dog dirt
dunghill
excreta
excrete
go to the bathroomidiom
motion
movement
pass
pellet
poo
poop
regular

stool | American Dictionary

stool
noun[ C ]
us/stul/

stoolnoun[C] (SEAT)

a seat without any support for the back or arms:
a piano stool
Sarah sat on a kitchen stool.

stoolnoun[C] (SOLID WASTE)

medical
a piece of excrement

Examples of stool

stool
The first stool examination was performed on 210 children in each neighourhood.
Aside from worm numbers, egg output also depends on processes such as faecal output and stool consistency, which are likely to differ systematically between individuals.
The average annual isolation rate was 76.2 per 100 000 persons for blood+stool isolates, and 2.0 per 100 000 for blood isolates alone.
Stool specimens were obtained and tested for 23 ill persons who selfreported that they were wedding participants.
Study participants were provided with a labelled clean stool container, containing l0 ml of 10% formalin.
The nucleotide sequence of the amplicon from the water was identical to those determined from the three stool specimens for which sequencing was performed.
In this study, nasal and stool culture were performed only on admission and were not repeated later during the hospital stay.
Stool samples were also collected from each of the parents and the 2year-old brother.
For cases with two adequate stool specimens, the first specimen also was collected within a median of 7 days.
Environmental/food samples and stool specimens of food handlers were taken from the observed facilities.
A second stool sample was obtained from the positive farm workers as well as from their household contacts.
An estimate of number of stools from general practice would be extremely useful as a denominator for other national surveillance systems facilitating international comparisons.
It is programmatically important to identify and correct factors that lead to the collection of too few or inadequate stools.
We describe changes in stool specimen sensitivity for poliovirus isolation during a time when wild poliovirus transmission has been rapidly declining.
Examination of stool samples of normal subjects in the filaraemic areas (endemic normal) revealed that 48.8% were found to be infected with intestinal parasites.
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