borborygmi

The word borborygmi refers to the noises in the gut, onomatopoeia first used by the ancient Greeks, according to Mark Morton, an etymologist and author of

GOOD Main 2009

Those rumbling, gurgling, growling sounds emanating from your midsection are called borborygmi and are caused by the movement of fluids and gases as food, acids and digestive juices migrate from the stomach into the upper part of the small intestine.

Fore, right! 2009

The symptoms of LI are diarrhea, gas, cramps, flatulence, and borborygmi (the rumbling of air through the intestines) after the ingestion of milk products.

Answers to Questions from Readers, part 6 Steve Carper 2007

Mr HdHouse, I'm not just exactly sure when you are asking questions and when they are rhetorical borborygmi, but here is the answer: if you statistically sequester 3 groups who share the same culture - white southern rednecks, urban blacks also culturally rednecks and southern blacks, then the rest of us do have a 'civilized' murder rate.

"Madison gun owner Auric Gold said he often carries a handgun in a holster while walking in his east side neighborhood..." Ann Althouse 2009

Connection suggested between insufficient food and abdominal borborygmi.

RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

Pains in the hypochondria, and swellings, if recent, and not accompanied with inflammation, are relieved by borborygmi supervening in the hypochondrium, more especially if it pass off with faeces, urine, and wind; but even although not, it will do good by passing along, and it also does good by descending to the lower part of the belly.

The Book Of Prognostics 2007

When the hypochondriac region is affected with meteorism and borborygmi, should pain of the loins supervene, the bowels get into

Aphorisms 2007

Of course, if they could harness the borborygmi produced as a result of the consumption of Tex-Mex, we could probably cut our oil imports down to a couple of spoonfuls, though I suspect the Organization of Pepto-Bismol Exporting Countries might have something to say about that.

dustbury.com » Carbs return to the engine bay 2007

If there be borborygmi, with bilious stools, purge moderately with scammony; but with regard to the treatment otherwise, administer as few drinks and draughts as until there be some amendment, and the disease is past the fourteenth day.

On Regimen In Acute Diseases 2007

Should you determine to give purgative medicines in such cases, at the commencement, you should do so before the fifth day, if there be borborygmi in the bowels, or, if not, you should omit the medicines altogether.

On Regimen In Acute Diseases 2007