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Definition of Borborygmi
1. borborygmus [n] - See also: borborygmus
Medical Definition of Borborygmi
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Borborygmi
Literary usage of Borborygmi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Alimentary Tract: A Radiographic Study by Alfred Ernest Barclay (1915)
"borborygmi. The annoying and persistently recurring rumbles that some people
exhibit are generally supposed to be due to collections of air in the intestine ..."
2. Thirty-five Years in the East: Adventures, Discoveries, Experiements, and by John Martin Honigberger (1852)
"cN Cher ay la, borborygmi. p. Chin, cart., pain in the bowels, ... Croc, sat,,
borborygmi. Flatulency with indigestion. Crust. ..."
3. An Index of differential diagnosis of main symptoms by Herbert French (1918)
"24-M borborygmi are gurgling noises in the abdomen produced by peristaltic
movements of the bowel acting upon the mixed gaseous and fluid contents. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by John Henry Clarke (1900)
"Fulness in the abdomen : with borborygmi and colic; with pinching; ... Inflation of
the abdomen every day, with tension and borborygmi, < while walking. ..."
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