noun
definition
Gas generated in the digestive tract.
definition
Expulsion of such gas through the anus.
definition
Morbid inflation or swelling.
Examples of flatus in a Sentence
He thus superseded Warham, who was legatus flatus, in ecclesiastical authority; and though legates a latere were supposed to exercise only special and temporary powers, Wolsey secured the practical permanence of his office.
Physical assessment will determine the presence or absence of bowel sounds, flatus, or abdominal distention.
Throughout this time she had however been passing flatus, was not vomiting and had been eating and drinking normally.
The usual symptoms of lactose intolerance include loose stools, intermittent abdominal distention, colic and excessive flatus after lactose ingestion.
The alchemists used such terms as spiritus, flatus, halitus, aura, emanatio nubila, &c., words implying a "wind" or "breath."
Holding fast then on the one hand to the individual as the only true substance, and on the other to the traditional definition of the genus as that which is predicated of a number of individuals (quod praedicatur de pluribus), Abelard declared that this definition of itself condemns the Realistic theory; only a name, not a thing, can be so predicated - not the name, however, as a flatus vocis or a collection of letters, but the name as used in discourse, the name as a sign, as having a meaning - in a word, not vox but sermo.
The common account of his philosophical position, that he reintroduced nominalism, which had been in decadence since the days of Roscellinus and Abelard, by teaching that universals were only flatus vocis, is scarcely correct.