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.
pl. foramina [L.] a natural opening or passage, especially one into or through a bone. a foramen which perforates the wing of the atlas in some species and transmits the vertebral artery; appears as a notch in dogs. the opening at or near the apex of the root of a tooth and into the dental cavity.