flatus

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In most people, flatus is composed primarily of hydrogen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

The extreme concentration of hydrogen in a flatus does make it easier to detect with a tiny sensor.

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 stomach distended with flatus on the pyloric side; its cardiac extremity, lying under the liver, was pressed down and contracted.

From Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart by Warren, John Collins