| 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 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) |
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| flatulent dyspepsia | Dyspepsia with frequent eructations of swallowed air, sometimes without underlying organic disease. (05 Mar 2000) |