英:[ˈfleɪtəs]
美:[ˈfletəs]
英:[ˈfleɪtəs]
美:[ˈfletəs]
n.
肠胃胀气
屁
阵风
气息
fla·tus
fleI ts
复数:flatuses
词根:flatus
adj.flatulent 浮夸的;自负的;肠胃气胀的;空虚的
n.flatulence [内科] 肠胃气胀;浮夸;自负
1660年代,“肠道中的风”,源自拉丁语 flatus “吹气”,来自 flare “吹”(源自 PIE 词根 *bhle- “吹”)。
[拉]肠胃气:胃肠道内的气体
屁:肛门排气
屁
矢气
从肛门排出气体的过程。
Latin, act of blowing, act of breaking wind
The first known use of flatus was in 1651
flatusnoun
gas generated in the stomach or bowels
1 The stomach and bowels are liable to distension by flatus, sometimes to the extent of producing colicky pains.
2 I ask Levitt whether it was difficult to recruit volunteers for the flatus studies.
3 Stabbing pain runs up rectum after passing flatus.
4 Rate of hydrogen sulfide production (flatulence index) and frequency and number of emissions were evaluated as potential indicators of flatus characteristics.
5 The purpose of this study was to design artificial flatus from bacterial volatile compounds to stimulate research into neutralizing measures.
6 In certain patients the habit of swallowing air may grow, and the necessity for its evacuation, either by eructation or flatus, may be a source of great discomfort.
7 On the following day he was seized with vomiting accompanied by nausea and flatus, and after a sudden attack of pain at the pit of the stomach which continued for two hours, he died.
8 This “artificial flatus” was put to work testing a variety of activated charcoal products: underwear, adhesive-backed underwear pads, and chair cushions.
9 This problem may be more significant on commercial airplanes where many people are seated in limited space and where changes in volume of intestinal gases, due to altered cabin pressure, increase the amount of potential flatus.
10 “Name five things that are better outside the body than in,” he asked, not mentioning that the answer appears in his novel: fluids, fetuses, foreign bodies, feces and flatus.
11 Modern medicine offers some support, reporting that flatus retention is the major factor in diverticular disease.
12 Care must be used in preparing this flatus enema on account of the danger of curdling the milk with the acid in the molasses and the hot water.
13 “Even now,” he says of his flatus work, “it overshadows everything else I do.”
14 He identified the three sulfur gases responsible for flatus odor.
15 Sometimes the large intestine is distended with flatus.
16 The odor of the flatus is seldom offensive.
17 Huntsman makes another joke, followed by another flatus face.
18 Though lesser players like methylmercaptan contribute as well, it is for the most part these three notes, in subtly shifting combinations and percentages, that create the infinite olfactory variety of human flatus.
19 After earnest studies, NASA found that flatus contains 400 substances.
美国太空总署经过认真的研究,发现屁里面含有400种成分。
20 An enema containing it is useful in relieving flatus.