Steatorrhea (or steatorrhoea) is the presence of excess fat in feces. Stools may be bulky and difficult to flush, have a pale and oily appearance and can be especially foul-smelling. An oily anal leakage or some level of fecal incontinence may occur. There is increased fat excretion, which can be measured by determining the fecal fat level.
Putamen: An area in the brain within a structure called the lentiform nucleus. The putamen may decrease in size as a result of damage in Huntington's disease.
incisive foramen one of the openings of the incisive canals into the incisive fossa of the hard palate. interventricular foramen a passage from the third to the lateral ventricle of the brain.intervertebral foramen a passage for a spinal nerve and vessels formed by notches on the pedicles of adjacent vertebrae.oramen. pl. foramina [L.] a natural opening or passage, especially one into or through a bone. alar foramen. a foramen which perforates the wing of the atlas in some species and transmits the vertebral artery; appears as a notch in dogs.