flatus

n. 肠胃胀气, 屁, 一阵风 [医] 肠胃气; 屁

发音

其它 /ˈfleɪtəs/

词形变化

flatuses 复数 flatuses

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Gas generated in the digestive tract.

    肠胃气

    不可数 可数

    This expression is utterly devoid of meaning, a mere flatus vocis.

  2. 2.

    Expulsion of such gas through the anus.

    屁

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    Morbid inflation or swelling.

    可数 废旧 不可数

    1730 April, Jonathan Swift, "A Vindication of the Lord Carteret", in Thomas Sheridan and John Nichols (Eds.), The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, Volume IX, J. Johnson &c. (1801), page 226, […] an incensed political surgeon, who is not in much renown for his mercy, upon great provocations: who, without waiting for his death, will flay and dissect him alive; and to the view of mankind lay open all the disordered cells of his brain, the venom of his tongue, the corruption of his heart, and spots and flatuses of his spleen: and all this for threepence.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

wind fart farting

上位词 3

reflex reflex response unconditioned reflex

词源

Learned borrowing from Latin flātus (“blowing, wind, fart”). First attested in the 1660s–1670s.

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