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Flatulency

noun
1.
A state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal.  Synonyms: flatulence, gas.






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"Flatulency" Quotes from Famous Books



... terrible mixed down here, Sol," Max commented as he hiccoughed away a slight flatulency. "Honestly if you want to be in striking distance of your business, Sol, so's you could come in and out every day, you got to rub shoulders with everybody, ...
— Elkan Lubliner, American • Montague Glass

... are a sophist," said Kennedy. "Possibly I am wrong in this discussion," retorted Caesar, "but the feeling I have is right. Artists irritate me; they seem to me like old ladies with a flatulency ...
— Caesar or Nothing • Pio Baroja Baroja

... Carica. COMMON FIG. Fruit. L. D.—The recent fruit completely ripe is soft, succulent, and easily digested, unless eaten in immoderate quantities, when it is apt to occasion flatulency, pain of the bowels, and diarrhoea. The dried fruit is pleasanter to the taste, and is more wholesome and nutritive. Figs are supposed to be more nutritious by having their sugar united with a large portion of mucilaginous matter, which, from ...
— The Botanist's Companion, Vol. II • William Salisbury



Words linked to "Flatulency" :   physiological state, physical condition, flatulent, physiological condition



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