flatus

noun3

1. •
   Gas generated in the digestive tract.

   • This expression is utterly devoid of meaning, a mere flatus vocis.
2. •
   The 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. — 1940
3. •
   (no longer used) Morbid inflation or swelling.