Flatulence

bodily function of expelling intestinal gas out of the anus

Flatulence is the expulsion of gas from the intestines via the anus, commonly referred to as farting. Flatus is the medical word for gas generated in the stomach or bowels. A proportion of intestinal gas may be swallowed environmental air, and hence flatus is not entirely generated in the stomach or bowels. The scientific study of this area of medicine is termed flatology.

Quotes

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  • Awè bleteth after lomb,
      Lhouth after calvè cu;
    Bulluc sterteth, buckè verteth,
      Murie sing cuccu!
  • GLENDOWER: I say the earth did shake when I was born. [...]
    The heavens were all on fire, the earth did tremble.
    HOTSPUR: O, then the earth shook to see the heavens on fire
    And not in fear of your nativity.
    Diseasèd nature oftentimes breaks forth
    In strange eruptions. Oft the teeming earth
    Is with a kind of colic pinched and vexed
    By the imprisoning of unruly wind
    Within her womb, which for enlargement striving
    Shakes the old beldam earth and topples down
    Steeples and moss-grown towers. At your birth
    Our grandma earth, having this distemperature,
    In passion shook.
  • CLOWN: Are these, I pray you, wind instruments?
    FIRST MUSICIAN: Ay marry are they, sir.
    CLOWN: O, thereby hangs a tail.
    FIRSTMUSICIAN: Whereby hangs a tail, sir?
    CLOWN: Marry, sir, by many a wind instrument that I know.
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