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borborygm
UK /ˌbɔːbəˈɹɪɡm̩/ US /ˌbɔɹbəˈɹiɡm̩/
noun 2
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1BORBORYGM + NOUN
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noun
1
A gurgling or rumbling noise produced by gas in the bowels.
Borborygm, a rumbling Noiſe in the Guts.
Should the dose of bark [of Cinchona trees] be too strong, or its use be too long continued, or finally, the digestive canal, or any other organ be in a state of inflammation, all the phenomena we have just mentioned become more intense and all the symptoms of phlegmasia are aggravated. Uneasiness and dry heat are felt at the epigastric region; nausea, borborygm, vomiting or alvine evacuations take place; […]
2
A gurgling or rumbling.
[Susan] Sontag then pauses for the space of a paragraph to deliver a swift verbal kick at American fiction for its technical unadventurousness, its lack of an avant-garde, and its tendency to interpretive borborygm.
When the promised state of affairs failed to materialize, the specifically communist claim of authority was rendered void, and it was clumsily and awkwardly replaced by Brezhnevite borborygms of the status quo.
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Borborygm, a rumbling Noiſe in the Guts.
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Should the dose of bark [of Cinchona trees] be too strong, or its use be too long continued, or finally, the digestive canal, or any other organ be in a state of inflammation, all the phenomena we hav
Wiktionary03
Persons, who are much subject to worms in these countries, are generally of a pale complexion, with a bluish circle round the eyes; […] and there are various signs of irritation of the digestive tube,
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