Reader's Digest 2月号の記事 "Yep, There's an At-Home Test for That" からの引用です。
Colon Cancer
METHOD: Collect a stool. For the home test Cologuard, which looks for DNA changes and small amounts of bleed shed into the stool, you'll need to send it to a lab.
この "stool" は文脈からイスではなく、便を指していることが分かります。辞書で確認します。
・Collins Dictionary: Stools are the pieces of solid waste matter that are passed out of a person's body through their bowels.: A small stool sample is sent to a lab.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: a piece of solid waste from the body: He told the doctor he had been passing bloody stools
・Merriam-Webster: a mass of bodily waste discharged from the intestine in a bowel movement: Each participant gets their whole genome sequenced at enrollment, and then every three months provides samples of blood, saliva, urine, and stool for analysis.
Colon Cancer
METHOD: Collect a stool. For the home test Cologuard, which looks for DNA changes and small amounts of bleed shed into the stool, you'll need to send it to a lab.
この "stool" は文脈からイスではなく、便を指していることが分かります。辞書で確認します。
・Collins Dictionary: Stools are the pieces of solid waste matter that are passed out of a person's body through their bowels.: A small stool sample is sent to a lab.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: a piece of solid waste from the body: He told the doctor he had been passing bloody stools
・Merriam-Webster: a mass of bodily waste discharged from the intestine in a bowel movement: Each participant gets their whole genome sequenced at enrollment, and then every three months provides samples of blood, saliva, urine, and stool for analysis.
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