flatus

Example Sentences

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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 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

Stools: Piles; passes offensive flatus; stools soft and pappy; watery diarrhœa; stools hard, like stone, knotty.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock