flatus
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of flatus
1660–70; < New Latin; Latin: a blowing, breathing, breath, equivalent to flā ( re ) to blow + -tus suffix of v. action
Example Sentences
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The small sensor tracks hydrogen in flatus, allowing scientists to reexamine long held assumptions about how often people pass gas.
From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026
The extreme concentration of hydrogen in a flatus does make it easier to detect with a tiny sensor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
M Gove has promised to phase out diesel- and petrol-driven cars by 2040, a tiny flatus puff in a vast tornado, 22 years of slow death away.
From The Guardian • Jun. 3, 2018
Each day, up to 1500 mL of flatus is produced in the colon.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
A flatus enema containing salts, glycerin, and a few drops of turpentine is also valuable in removing the gas formed by the action of the putrefactive bacteria upon the unabsorbed food mass.
From Dietetics for Nurses by Proudfit, Fairfax T.
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