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Meanings of meteorism in English
Medical condition in which excess gas accumulates in the gastrointestinal tract and causes abdominal distension.
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Examples for "tympanites"
Examples for "tympanites"
1
Arton reports the case of a negro of fifty who suffered from tympanites.
2
The abdomen was distended with tympanites and the rectum much dilated with accumulated feces.
3
Neither of these cases had any tympanites worth mentioning.
4
This means not only that tympanites should not be allowed, but also that necessary laxatives should be given.
5
The participants seemed to suffer greatly from tympanites which was generally relieved by compression or thumping on the abdomen.
Usage of meteorism in English
1
Symptoms of vomiting, meteorism, etc., began, and became more violent until the seventh day, when he died.
2
The meteorism opposed relaxation and rest, two conditions positively necessary and without which healing can not take place.
3
How was it possible with meteorism as described, to say that there was a sharply circumscribed perityphlitic abscess?
4
Peritoneal meteorism is peculiar.
5
Carbonated and other mineral waters must be strictly avoided, since they only add to the usually prevailing meteorism, or gas in the abdominal cavity.
6
"Upon the twelfth day of the disease vomiting _suddenly recurred with severe diffuse abdominal pain, marked meteorism, and fever to about 102.2 degree F.;"
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