| stook | <agriculture> A small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves. Origin: Scot. Stook, stouk; cf. LG. Stuke a heap, bundle, G. Stauche a truss, bundle of flax. <agriculture> To set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks. Origin: Stooked; Stooking. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Stookey, Byron | <person> U.S. Neurosurgeon, 1887-1966. See: Stookey-Scarff operation, Queckenstedt-Stookey test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Stookey-Scarff operation | An operation to establish an opening from the third ventricle to the prechiasmal and interpeduncular cisterns (Stookey-Scarff operation) or from the third ventricle to the interpeduncular cistern (Dandy operation). (05 Mar 2000) |