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STEATORRHEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The presence of greater than normal amounts of fat in the feces which are frothy and foul smelling and floating; a symptom of disorders of fat metabolism and malabsorption syndrome
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("steatorrhea" is a kind of...):
symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)