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stool softeners

stool softeners is the plural of stool softener.

Meaning of stool softener

Noun

stool softener (plural stool softeners)

  1. Any medication used to introduce water and/or fat to the contents of the patient's intestines, making those contents more likely to pass out in the feces.
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      Allen Gregory: Pencils, papers. What's that? That looks like stool softener?...2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)

Questions about stool softeners

What is stool softeners the plural of?
Stool softeners is the plural of stool softener.

Words near stool softeners in the dictionary

  1. stool of easement
  2. stool of repentance
  3. stool pigeon
  4. stool pigeons
  5. stool softener
  6. stool softeners
  7. stool-ball
  8. stool-balls
  9. stoolball
  10. stoole
  11. stooled

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