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Definition of Flatulent

1. Adjective. Generating excessive gas in the alimentary canal.

Definition of Flatulent

1. a. Affected with flatus or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy.

Definition of Flatulent

1. Adjective. Affected by gas in the intestine; likely to fart. ¹

2. Adjective. (obsolete) vain. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Flatulent

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Flatulent

1. 1. Affected with flatus or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy. 2. Generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach. "Vegetables abound more with aerial particles than animal substances, and therefore are more flatulent." (Arbuthnot) 3. Turgid with flatus; as, a flatulent tumour. 4. Pretentious without substance or reality; puffy; empty; vain; as, a flatulent vanity. "He is too flatulent sometimes, and sometimes too dry." (Dryden) Origin: L. Flatus a blowing, flatus ventris windiness, flatulence, fr. Flare to blow: cf. F. Flatulent. See Blow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flatulent

Literary usage of Flatulent

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

1. First Lines of the Practice of Physic by William Cullen (1808)
"OF THE flatulent SWELLINGS. 1626. THE cellular texture of the human body very readily ... The flatulent swellings under the skin, have indeed most commonly ..."

2. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1805)
"flatulent Colick, <witb Hernia, cured by Opiates alone, ... This cafe naturally fug. gefts the very free ufe of opium, not only in flatulent colick, ..."

3. A Practical Treatise on the Typhus Or Adynamic Fever by John Burne (1828)
"The tympanitic or flatulent distended belly exists, to a greater or less degree, ... The tenderness of the abdomen depending on the flatulent distention, ..."

4. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1868)
"To check the flatulent distension of the colon from gaseous evolution, creosote and carbolic acid hold a deservedly prominent position ; and when there is ..."

5. The works of William Cullen: containing his physiology, nosology, and first by William Cullen (1827)
"The flatulent swellings under the skin have indeed most commonly appeared in consequence of air immediately introduced from without: but ..."

6. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1881)
"ON flatulent DISTENSION OF THE COLON. By Dr. EW BURNET, Physician to the Great Northern ... Assuming then for the moment that such a condition as flatulent ..."

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