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Abstract
Production or presence of gas in the gastrointestinal tract which may be expelled through the anus.
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- Flatus
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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/drug ther: consider also ANTIFOAMING AGENTS; see note on "intestinal gases" under GASES
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Flatulence. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D005414. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D005414
- Flatulence. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatulence
- Flatulence. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160184