flatus
Example Sentences
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The small sensor tracks hydrogen in flatus, allowing scientists to reexamine long held assumptions about how often people pass gas.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2026
The sensor is mostly dormant, but it also needs to record every emission, so the team needed a way to generate a flatus on command.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
M Gove has promised to phase out diesel- and petrol-driven cars by 2040, a tiny flatus puff in a vast tornado, 22 years of slow death away.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 3, 2018
Each day, up to 1500 mL of flatus is produced in the colon.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The only thing unusual which I noticed to-day was the passage of considerable offensive flatus; a greater quantity after retiring than during the day.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
