Re: EN or ES-EN: medical word for farts

[Guest guest]

How about re-casting the sentence, something like " ... through breaking wind 14

+/- 6 times a day " ?

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To: medical_translation

Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 5:23 PM

Subject: EN or ES-EN: medical word for " farts "

 

A very serious medical paper reports that a healthy person emits from

200 mL to 2000 mL of gas per day in 14 ±6 " ventosidades " (farts).

I am loath to use " farts " in a medical paper, but saying " flatulence "

would imply more than individual farts. When you stop laughing could you

suggest a better alternative?

Thank you for any input concerning this output.

Thanks,

Burns

[Guest guest]

How about flatus (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flatus)? I found it by looking

up " fart. "

The term appears on Google Scholar:

[Guest guest]

El 23/06/2012 1:51, Purdy escribió:

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> How about re-casting the sentence, something like " ... through

> breaking wind 14 +/- 6 times a day " ?

>

Yes. Re-casting the sentence is probably the best solution, I think

'passing gas' sounds a bit more medical though. It is a rather gaseous

article in fact, without a speck of humour.

:-)

Burns

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> To: medical_translation

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> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 5:23 PM

> Subject: EN or ES-EN: medical word for " farts "

>

>

>

> A very serious medical paper reports that a healthy person emits from

> 200 mL to 2000 mL of gas per day in 14 ±6 " ventosidades " (farts).

>

> I am loath to use " farts " in a medical paper, but saying " flatulence "

> would imply more than individual farts. When you stop laughing could you

> suggest a better alternative?

>

> Thank you for any input concerning this output.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Burns

>

>

[Guest guest]

El 23/06/2012 2:54, Barrett escribió:

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> How about flatus (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flatus)? I found it by

> looking up " fart. "

>

My med dictionaries define " flatus " as the gas itself, rather than the

emission of it, but that's okay, I think has suggested a way

around. I should have thought of it myself.

Burns

>

> The term appears on Google Scholar:

>

[Guest guest]

This article refers to a study by Albert Tangerman which investigated

the compounds present in " flatus emissions " :

http://www.canadafreepress.com/medical/gastroenterology120593.htm

I haven't found the original study.

All the best

Owen

> How about re-casting the sentence, something like " ... through breaking wind

14 +/- 6 times a day " ?

>

>

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> ________________________________

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> To: medical_translation

> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 5:23 PM

> Subject: EN or ES-EN: medical word for " farts "

>

>

>

> A very serious medical paper reports that a healthy person emits from

> 200 mL to 2000 mL of gas per day in 14 ±6 " ventosidades " (farts).

>

> I am loath to use " farts " in a medical paper, but saying " flatulence "

> would imply more than individual farts. When you stop laughing could you

> suggest a better alternative?

>

> Thank you for any input concerning this output.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Burns

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

*OneLook Dictionary says:*

*We found 38 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word

flatus:* **

*fla·tus*

[fley-tuhs] Show IPA

noun, plural fla·tus·es.

intestinal gas produced by bacterial action on waste matter in the

intestines and composed primarily of hydrogen sulfide and varying amounts of

methane.

Also called *gas.* <http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gas>

*Origin:** *

1660–70; < Neo-Latin; Latin: a blowing, breathing, breath, equivalent to

flÄ ( re ) to blow + -tus suffix of v. action

Dictionary.com Unabridged

Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.

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World English Dictionary

*flatus * (ˈfleɪtəs)

— *n * , *pl **-tuses *

gas generated in the alimentary canal

[C17: from Latin: a blowing, snorting, from *flÄre * to breathe, blow]

English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition

2009 © Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © Harper

Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009

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Word Origin & History

flatus

from L. flatus " a blowing, " from flare " to blow " (see

blow<http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/blow> (v.1)).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Harper

Medical Dictionary

*flatus * fla·tus (flÄ'tÉ™s)

*n. *

Gas generated in or expelled from the digestive tract, especially from the

stomach or intestines.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary

Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by

Houghton Mifflin Company.

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9. Flatus <http://www.rxlist.com/script/main/alphaidx.asp?p=f_dict>:

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2012/6/23 Gerard Burns

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> El 23/06/2012 2:54, Barrett escribió:

>

> >

> > How about flatus (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flatus)? I found it by

> > looking up " fart. "

> >

>

> My med dictionaries define " flatus " as the gas itself, rather than the

> emission of it, but that's okay, I think has suggested a way

> around. I should have thought of it myself.

>

> Burns

>

[Guest guest]

my Spanish-Russian medical dictionary gave 'meteorizm' for 'ventosidad', and

looking up meteorism in English one gets 'tympanites', all variations on flatus.

Connor

Re: EN or ES-EN: medical word for " farts "

*OneLook Dictionary says:*

*We found 38 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word

flatus:* **

[Guest guest]

El 23/06/2012 2:54, Barrett escribió:

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> How about flatus (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flatus)? I found it by

> looking up " fart. "

>

> The term appears on Google Scholar:

>

[Guest guest]

El 23/06/2012 8:55, Connor escribió:

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> my Spanish-Russian medical dictionary gave 'meteorizm' for

> 'ventosidad', and looking up meteorism in English one gets

> 'tympanites', all variations on flatus.

> Connor

>

Hi ,

" Meteorism " and 'tympanites' are synonyms, But they mean " a distension

of the abdomen caused by accumulation of gas in the intestinal tract or

peritoneal cavity " (Merriam-Webster Medical Desk Dictionary).

Burns

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> Re: EN or ES-EN: medical word for " farts "

>

> *OneLook Dictionary says:*

>

> *We found 38 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word

> flatus:* **

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hello

In Mexico and other Spanish speaking countries fart is known as " pedo " . It would

be better to say " expulsar gases " " Pedo " is rather vulgar in Mexico.

Dr. Pablo Faudrin

[Guest guest]

That's an interesting distinction! So I looked on Google Scholar, and here are

the terms I found:

passages of flatus (http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199507063330101) -

13 GS hits

flatus emissions

(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1080/11024159850191553/abstract) - 11

first flatus (http://bja.oxfordjournals.org/content/59/5/581.short) - 1000 (but

second flatus only 2)

flatus events (http://www.springerlink.com/content/jx03926182471m26/) - 14

You said you were satisfied with the workaround suggested earlier, so FWIW.

Barrett

Seattle, WA

> El 23/06/2012 2:54, Barrett escribió:

> >

> > How about flatus (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flatus)? I found it by

> > looking up " fart. "

> >

> > The term appears on Google Scholar:

> >