Definitions for flatus

flatus fla·tus

Spelling: [fley-tuh s]
IPA: /ˈfleɪ təs/

Flatus is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in flatus (aflstu).

Definitions for flatus

noun

  1. intestinal gas produced by bacterial action on waste matter in the intestines and composed primarily of hydrogen sulfide and varying amounts of methane.

Origin of flatus

1660-70; New Latin; Latin: a blowing, breathing, breath, equivalent to flā(re) to blow + -tus suffix of v. action

Examples for flatus

His stomach was a good deal disturbed, and the bowels were soon distended with flatus.

Much distress is occasioned by abdominal distension from flatus, which develops with remarkable rapidity.

If the gangrenous portion be very full of fæces or flatus, incisions may be made into it.

Relief is obtained both from the pain and from the sense of distension by expulsion of flatus.

The stomach and bowels are liable to distension by flatus, sometimes to the extent of producing colicky pains.

It should be clear, because "turbida impinguat, flatus gignit, atque brevem spiritum efficit."

There should be proper control of flatus and motions from the date of operation.

The plebs plebis think that the cause is wind or flatus, and that they get rid of the ague by belching.

Not that they may not be more than names (flatus vocis), but that they are nothing less than names.

Word Value for flatus
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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