Word Meanings - METEORISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Flatulent distention of the abdomen; tympanites.

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• FLATULENT
  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 aërial particles than animal substances, and therefore are more flatulent.
• DISTENTION
  1. The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being Distended; as, the distention of the lungs. 2. Breadth; extent or space occupied by the thing distended.
• FLATULENTLY
  In a flatulent manner; with flatulence.
• ABDOMEN
  The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm
• TYMPANITES
  A flatulent distention of the belly; tympany.
• POST-ABDOMEN
  That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax; -- more commonly called abdomen.