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Occult stool blood test
A test to check for hidden blood in the feces, the stool
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- Polonies See: Polony
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- Crapulence Sickness or indisposition resulting from an excess of drinking (or eating). Crapulence is an almost exact…
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- Humoral Pertaining to elements in the blood or other body fluids. In medicine, humor refers to a fluid (or semifluid)…