Monday, August 04, 2008

Health-related words

A dialogue I'm studying now is about conversation in the hospital. So there are many words I've never heard. For example, bowel movements, constipated, diarrhea, urine, stool, stick out your tongue, press one's abdomen, etc. Uhh... I can't remember.

Meaning of stool I had known is a kind of a ladder or a small chair. I wonder what relation there is.

2 comments:

Rick Cogley said...

It has an interesting etymology and thank goodness for TOTO huh?

Here's a link:
http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question52907.html

sand said...

Oh, I see! Thank you for the info of the site. I understood why the word "stool" is used. It's interesting!