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Definition of Steatorrhea
1. Noun. 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.
Definition of Steatorrhea
1. Noun. (medicine) The presence of an excessive amount of fat in the feces ¹
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Definition of Steatorrhea
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Literary usage of Steatorrhea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis by Means of Microscopic and Chemical Methods by Charles Edmund Simon (1907)
"A steatorrhea will thus naturally occur when an insufficient supply of bile ii
... True steatorrhea is also met with in diseases affecting the resorptive ..."
2. Diagnostic Methods, Chemical, Bacteriological and Microscopical: A Text-book by Ralph Waldo Webster (1920)
"Any condition which interferes with the proper absorption of fat by the mucosa
or lymphatics will lead to steatorrhea. This condition may be observed, ..."
3. Diagnostic Methods, Chemical, Bacteriological and Microscopical: A Text-book by Ralph Waldo Webster (1912)
"Any condition which interferes with the proper absorption of fat by the mucosa
or lymphatics will lead to steatorrhea. This condition may be observed, ..."
4. Diseases of the stomach, intestines, and pancreas by Robert Coleman Kemp (1912)
"In estimating whether a true fatty stool (steatorrhea ... steatorrhea.—This term
is strictly applied to those cases in which the fat is discharged in the ..."
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