STEATORRHEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does steatorrhea mean? 

• STEATORRHEA (noun)
  The noun STEATORRHEA has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: STEATORRHEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEATORRHEA (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)

 Context examples 

Signs and symptoms include epigastric pain, weight loss, vomiting, steatorrhea, and diabetes mellitus.

(Pancreatic Intraductal Tubulopapillary Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include failure to thrive, diarrhea, steatorrhea, acanthocytosis and ataxia.

(Abetalipoproteinemia, NCI Thesaurus)