English Dictionary

flatus

/ˈfleɪtəs/

noun

(uncountable) Gas generated in the digestive tract. / (countable) Expulsion of such gas through the anus. / (obsolete) Morbid inflation or swelling.

He released a loud flatus during the meeting.

意味（1）

(uncountable) Gas generated in the digestive tract.

意味（2）

(countable) Expulsion of such gas through the anus.

The point of quoque with illos is that those flatus, which have the right to be called winds, are also subject to laws like the winds themselves.

意味（3）

(obsolete) Morbid inflation or swelling.

[…] 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.