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flatus

[fley-tuhs] / ˈfleɪ təs /




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However, results varied widely among individuals, with totals ranging from just four flatus events per day to as many as 59.

From Science Daily Mar. 14, 2026

The sensor is mostly dormant, but it also needs to record every emission, so the team needed a way to generate a flatus on command.

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

On the following day he was seized with vomiting accompanied by nausea and flatus, and after a sudden attack of pain at the pit of the stomach which continued for two hours, he died.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)




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