FLATUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flatus mean? 

• FLATUS (noun)
  The noun FLATUS has 1 sense:

1. a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus

  Familiarity information: FLATUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLATUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

breaking wind; fart; farting; flatus; wind

Hypernyms ("flatus" is a kind of...):

inborn reflex; innate reflex; instinctive reflex; physiological reaction; reflex; reflex action; reflex response; unconditioned reflex (an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus)

 Context examples 

It is allowed, that senates and great councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant humours; with many diseases of the head, and more of the heart; with strong convulsions, with grievous contractions of the nerves and sinews in both hands, but especially the right; with spleen, flatus, vertigos, and deliriums; with scrofulous tumours, full of fetid purulent matter; with sour frothy ructations: with canine appetites, and crudeness of digestion, besides many others, needless to mention.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)