flatus
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Hydrogen is generated exclusively by microbes living in the gut, so continuously measuring hydrogen in flatus provides a direct signal of microbial fermentation activity as gut bacteria break down food components.
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
The stomach distended with flatus on the pyloric side; its cardiac extremity, lying under the liver, was pressed down and contracted.
From Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart by John Collins Warren
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