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==Laboratory testing of feces==

In the medical profession, feces are referred to as '''stools'''. This comes from the [[Anglo-Saxon]] word ''stol'', which means "seat". The word stool was originally used to describe the seat one sat on to defecate. So, the expression was that they were "going to stool." By the end of the [[16th century]], the word stool was used to mean the same thing as feces. Some [[microbiologists]] say President George W. Bush smells like stool, but that has not yet been confirmed.

Feces will usually be required for [[microbiology|microbiological]] testing, looking for an [[intestinal pathogen]].