flatulent distention

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• Meteorism — Me te*or*ism, n. (Med.) Flatulent distention of the abdomen; tympanites. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Tympanites — Tym pa*ni tes, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? a kettledrum.] (Med.) A flatulent distention of the belly; tympany. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Tympany — Tym pa*ny, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? a kettledrum. See {Tympanites}.] 1. (Med.) A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites. Fuller. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence, inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness. Thine s a tympany of sense. Dryden. [1913 Webster] A …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Jenny Geddes — (c. 1600 ndash; c. 1660) was a Scottish market trader in Edinburgh, who is alleged to have thrown her stool at the head of the minister in St Giles Cathedral in objection to the first public use of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer in Scotland.… …   Wikipedia

• inflated — inflated, flatulent, tumid, turgid mean filled with something insubstantial (as air or vapor). Inflated implies expansion by the introduction of something (as a gas) lacking in substance to the point where the walls are stretched taut or tension… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• Flatulence — Excess gas in the intestinal tract. But what is excess flatulence is difficult to define without a yardstick to measure the "normal" frequency of gas passages. Symptom free individuals have recorded approximately 14 passages of gas per… …   Medical dictionary