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flatus

[ UK /flˈætəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus

How To Use flatus In A Sentence

  • Overt displays of intelligence are considered just dandy in the art world so long as they are opaque enough to lend themselves to afflatus and jargoneering.
  • However, fever, nausea, increased flatus and chronic diarrhea with malabsorption may occur.
  • Further awakening of the inner potentials gradually bestows the supernormal powers of premonition, afflatus, telepathy, clairvoyance and prophecy.
  • The Hitchcock piece in particular is concerned less with artistic afflatus than with locating the master of suspense in the traditions of Englishness that even his most America-centred work sprang from. I Found it at the Movies: Reflections of a Cinephile by Philip French – review
  • Her abdomen was soft with normal, active bowel sounds, and she was passing flatus.
  • Patients don't belch (they eructate), fart (they pass flatus), or bleed to death (they exsanguinate). VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3
  • Geniuses must have a wild look, their hair must be in disarray, their mind must be in torment on account of their receptivity to divine afflatus, which comes in via the hair.
  • But, though less than a poet of her century, Ella was more than a mere multiplier of her kind, and latterly she had begun to feel the old afflatus once more.
  • Today's liberals, especially those who run the House, came of age amid the moral afflatus of the 1960s and are determined to remake America as a European entitlement state. Rosty and Reagan
  • His playing has the afflatus of genius and the purity of a child.
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