单词 | flatus |
释义 | flatusn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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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