Definition of Flatulency

1. Noun. A state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal.


Definition of Flatulency

1. Noun. (chiefly dated) flatulence ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Flatulency

1. [n -CIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flatulency

flattings
flattish
flattop
flattops
flatty
flatuency
flatulate
flatulated
flatulates
flatulating
flatulence tax
flatulence taxes
flatulences
flatulencies
flatulency (current term)
flatulent dyspepsia
flatulently
flatulogenic
flatuosity
flatuous
flatus
flatus-relieving
flatus enema
flatuses
flatware
flatwares
flatwash

Literary usage of Flatulency

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1850)
"Your itinerancy may be dissolve your present flatulency, it of Europe, with a view of relieving by this agreeable epistle, to abate and salubrious, ..."

2. The Homoeopathic domestic medicine by Joseph Laurie (1883)
"habitual sickness at the stomach, especially in the morning; and rising of bitter matter from the stomach; continual expulsion of flatulency from the bowels ..."

3. Thirty-five Years in the East: Adventures, Discoveries, Experiements, and by John Martin Honigberger (1852)
"Con. mac., rumbling in the bowels with hernia. Pain in the bowels, p. Cone, ary., pain below the navel. Cop. bah., gripes, po flatulency with indigestion. ..."

4. Treatment of Internal Diseases: For Physicians and Students by Norbert Ortner, Nathaniel Bowditch Potter (1908)
"THERAPY OF flatulency (METEORISMUS). We are often confronted with the task of ... But, if the flatulency is due to the formation of an abnormally large ..."

5. The Young House-keeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery by William Andrus Alcott (1839)
"Beans and peas produce flatulency. Why. How they should be cooked and used. Green peas and beans. Their pods. Bread of peas and beans. Puddings. Pea soup. ..."

6. Medical Diagnosis: With Special Reference to Practical Medicine : a Guide to by Jacob Mendes Da Costa (1900)
"flatulency.—The gas in the intestinal canal may be merely air which is swallowed ; or it may be generated from imperfectly digested food ; or it may be a ..."

7. Lectures to general practitioners on the diseases of the stomach and by Boardman Reed (1904)
"Such an important and obtrusive symptom as flatulency needs to be elucidated ... Numerous cases of digestive disorders characterized by much flatulency have ..."

8. Elements of homoeopathic practice of physic by Joseph Laurie (1853)
"... even amounting to nausea and vomiting, attended with excessive flatulency, and where the pit of the stomach is tender on pressure.* flatulency. ..."

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