flatus
IPA: fɫˈætɪs
noun
- (uncountable) Gas generated in the digestive tract.
- (countable) Expulsion of such gas through the anus.
- (obsolete) Morbid inflation or swelling.
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Examples of "flatus" in Sentences
- Please emit the flatus somewhere else.
- Adam waited patiently for a flatus to surface.
- Some humans produce flatus that contains methane.
- Inability to negotiate sigmoidoscope or a flatus tube.
- Not all flatus is released from the body via the anus.
- These compounds are what give flatus its disagreeable odor.
- However, not all humans produce flatus that contains methane.
- It appears that presence of methane in human flatus is a genetic trait.
- I realize flatus is generally harmless, but bloating can be unpleasant.
- Until that point comes you are, as Hoary shrewdly noted, merely flatus.
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