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Stomach cancer
Stomach cancer (gastric cancer), mostly adenocarcinoma of the stomach lining; sixth most common cancer, fifth leading cause of cancer death; mainly caused by Helicobacter pylori; treated by gastrectomy, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy.
Stomach disease
Stomach disease covers gastritis, peptic ulcer, GERD, gastroparesis, and gastric cancer. Key facts: Helicobacter pylori causes ulcers and cancer; Warren and Marshall won the 2005 Nobel Prize; eradication prevents ulcer recurrence.
Stomach rumble
Stomach rumble, or borborygmi (borborygmus), the gurgling noise of gas and fluid moving through the gut during peristalsis; normal in hunger via the migrating motor complex, clinically significant when absent or obstructed.
Stomatal conductance
Stomatal conductance measures how readily water vapor diffuses out of a leaf through stomatal pores, set by pore aperture and guard cell turgor, and is a key parameter in earth system models.
Stomatitis
Stomatitis, or oral mucositis, is inflammation of the mouth's mucous membranes. Common types are canker sores and cold sores; causes include herpes, Candida, trauma, allergy, and chemotherapy, treated with topical agents.
Stomiiformes
Stomiiformes (Stomiatiformes), dragonfishes and allies: an order of over 400 exclusively deep-sea ray-finned fishes with photophores, counterillumination, far-red vision in loosejaws, and a recently revised family-level classification.
Stomp dance
The stomp dance is a call-and-response dance of southeastern Native American peoples, performed at night around a sacred fire and maintained by the Muscogee, Cherokee, Seminole, and Chickasaw.
Stomp the Yard
Stomp the Yard is a 2007 American dance drama film directed by Sylvain White, about a Los Angeles street dancer drawn into stepping competitions at an Atlanta university.
STOMP trajectory optimization
STOMP trajectory optimization, or Stochastic Trajectory Optimization for Motion Planning, is a derivative-free sampling-based robot motion planning method introduced at ICRA 2011 by Kalakrishnan and colleagues.
Stone (2010 film)
Stone (2010 film), John Curran drama written by Angus MacLachlan: parole officer Jack Mabry (Robert De Niro) versus arsonist Gerald Creeson (Edward Norton) and wife Lucetta (Milla Jovovich); limited Overture Films release, $22M budget, weak box office, mixed reviews.
Stone (unit)
The stone is a British imperial unit of mass equal to 14 pounds, or about 6.35 kilograms, still used for body weight in Britain and Ireland.
Stone Age
The Stone Age: prehistoric period defined by stone tool use, from earliest toolmaking 3.3 million years ago to metal adoption. Divided into Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic after Thomsen's 1836 three-age system and Lubbock's 1865 subdivision.
Stone Arch Bridge (Minneapolis)
The Stone Arch Bridge is a 2,100-foot stone railroad bridge with 23 arches crossing the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, built for James J. Hill between 1881 and 1883.
Stone Blind
Stone Blind (2022) by Natalie Haynes is a Medusa-centered retelling of the Perseus myth, published by Mantle, longlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. Not the Olivia Gaines novel of the same name.
Stone carving in Goryeo
Stone carving in Goryeo (고려) is the Korean stone sculpture and architecture produced between 918 and 1392, chiefly Buddhist pagodas, stupas, lanterns, and steles in granite.
Stone Chamber and Metal Casket archive system
The Stone Chamber and Metal Casket archive system (石室金匮制度) was the ancient Chinese practice of protecting state records by sealing them in metal-bound cabinets housed in stone rooms against fire and unauthorized access.
Stone Chariot, Hampi
The Stone Chariot of Hampi is a granite Garuda shrine in the Vijaya Vittala Temple at Hampi, Karnataka, built in the 16th century under King Krishnadevaraya.
Stone circle
Stone circle: prehistoric ring of standing stones of Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Ireland; up to 1,300 known; built for gathering and ritual, not defense; includes Stonehenge, Avebury, recumbent circles.
Stone Circles of Senegambia
Stone Circles of Senegambia: UNESCO World Heritage Site (2006) of four laterite stone-circle groups, Sine Ngayène, Wanar, Wassu, Kerbatch, along the River Gambia in Senegal and The Gambia, over 1,000 funerary monuments dating roughly 3rd century BC to 16th century AD.
Stone City sites
石头城遗址 names two major Chinese sites: Nanjing's Six Dynasties Stone City, founded by Sun Quan in 212 CE and confirmed at Qingliangshan by excavations, and the Jin-to-Qing Tashkurgan Stone City in Xinjiang, a 2001 national key cultural relics protection unit.
Stone cladding
Stone cladding is the application of thin, non-load-bearing panels of natural stone, such as granite, marble, and limestone, to a building's facade for appearance and weather protection.
Stone Cold Fox
Stone Cold Fox is a 2025 American action thriller, Sophie Tabet's directorial debut, starring Kiernan Shipka, Krysten Ritter, and Kiefer Sutherland. Set in the 1980s, it follows Fox, who escapes an abusive commune and must return when the queenpin Goldie kidnaps her sister; released November 7, 2025 by Vertical and streamed on Netflix from January 9, 2026.
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Stone Cold Steve Austin (born 1964), WWE Hall of Famer and face of the Attitude Era; six-time WWE Champion, record three Royal Rumble wins, Austin 3:16, retired at WrestleMania XIX.
Stone column
A stone column is a vertical column of compacted gravel or crushed stone built in soft or loose ground to reinforce the soil, stiffen it under load, and speed drainage.
Stone columns
A stone column is a vertical column of compacted gravel or crushed stone installed in soft ground, one of the most common ground improvement techniques for embankments and structures.
Stone Drums of Qin
The Stone Drums of Qin (秦石鼓), also called liejie, are ten drum-shaped granite boulders carved with ancient seal-script poems, the oldest known Chinese stone inscriptions, housed in Beijing's Palace Museum.
Stone duality
Stone duality is a correspondence in mathematics identifying every Boolean algebra with the clopen subsets of a compact, totally disconnected Stone space, established by Marshall H. Stone in the 1930s.
Stone Forest
Stone Forest (石林, Shílín) is a UNESCO World Heritage site in Yunnan, China, featuring towering karst pillars formed from shallow marine carbonate deposits over 270 million years ago.
Stone Gate Inscription
The Stone Gate Inscription (石门铭) is a large cliff-face carving cut in 509 CE on the Shimen tunnel near Hanzhong, Shaanxi, and a celebrated masterpiece of Wei-style regular script.
Stone Gossard
Stone Gossard, Seattle guitarist and songwriter, rhythm guitarist of Pearl Jam; earlier in Green River and Mother Love Bone, played in Temple of the Dog and Brad, founded Loosegroove Records.