flatus

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

The contents of this part of the intestinal tract, which is rarely much distended by flatus, do not differ materially in appearance or consistence from the matter which generally composes the typhoid stool.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various