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Flatus

noun
(pl. E. flatuses, L. flatus)
1.
A reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus.  Synonyms: breaking wind, fart, farting, wind.



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"Flatus" Quotes from Famous Books



... crises of an inward morbid condition which was transferred from the sensorium to the nerves of motion, and, at an earlier period, to the abdominal plexus, where a deep-seated derangement of the system was perceptible from the secretion of flatus in the intestines. ...
— The Black Death, and The Dancing Mania • Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker


Words linked to "Flatus" :   instinctive reflex, breaking wind, physiological reaction, reflex action, unconditioned reflex, inborn reflex, reflex, reflex response, innate reflex


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