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单词 flatus
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flatusn.

Brit. /ˈfleɪtəs/, U.S. /ˈfleɪdəs/
Forms: Plural flatuses.
Etymology: < Latin flātus a blowing, < flāre to blow.
1. A blowing, a blast; a breath, a puff of wind. flatus vocis (the breath of the voice), a phrase used to describe the ultra-nominalist opinion attributed to Roscellinus (12th cent.), that universals have no substantial or conceptual existence, but consist in nothing more than the mere sound of their names.
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the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > exhalation > [noun]
pufflOE
fnastinga1382
pufta1425
blasting1535
outbreathing1574
efflation1578
expiration1603
perspiration1611
expiring1661
flatus1692
exhalation1742
utterance1844
poof1864
pew1932
1692 J. Ray Dissol. World (1693) i. iii. 10 It might possibly be effected by the same Causes that Earthquakes are, viz. subterraneous Fires and Flatuses.
1706 S. Clarke Let. to Mr. Dodwell 31 You make the Soul, as being a mere Flatus, to have a more precarious subsistence even than mere Matter itself.
1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. iv. 64 Made by letting slip a bit of breath or flatus.
2. Pathology. An accumulation or development of wind in the stomach or bowels; wind.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > flatulence
windc1000
ventosity1398
ventosities1422
ventosenessa1425
windinessc1450
blastinga1475
flatulentness1563
flatuosity1600
flatuousness1600
pursiness1607
flatea1644
sufflature1660
flatulency1661
flatus1669
flatulence1858
gaseosity1968
1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 85 From the antipathetical concourse of which two ariseth a secret incoercible flatus.
1729 W. Rutty in Philos. Trans. 1727–8 (Royal Soc.) 35 563 She said nevertheless, that Flatuses would sometimes be discharged from the Pudenda.
1858 J. Copland Dict. Pract. Med. I. 1044/2 To ascertain the source of the flatus which is often formed so abundantly in the digestive canal.
1872 T. G. Thomas Pract. Treat. Dis. Women (ed. 3) 133 That a free escape of flatus might be unobstructed.
3. A morbid inflation or swelling. literal and figurative.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [noun] > distension
ablowingeOE
swelling1377
inflation?1440
upblowing1527
fullness1583
flatus1702
insufflation1823
pouching1847–9
ballooning1889
1702 Eng. Theophrastus 9 Blown up with a flatus of envy and vanity.
1730 J. Swift Vindic. Ld. C—— 13 An incensed political Surgeon..will..lay open..the Corruption of his Heart, and Spots and Flatuses of his Spleen.
4. = afflatus n. 1.Apparently an isolated use.
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1716 Merry Musician I. 3 But this is not it That the flatus will fit, make the dull Reader grow merry.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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