loose stools
Unformed fecal matter
Loose stools are bowel movements that lack normal firmness—watery or soft rather than formed.
The term appears frequently in medical contexts as a clinical way to describe diarrhea or its milder forms: The medication may cause loose stools.
A single episode is a loose stool.
- diarrheaFrequent liquid bowel movements
- wateryContaining excess liquid
- bowelInternal digestive organ
- bowel movementFecal discharge from body
- runnyExcessively fluid
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