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belching
has definitions from the fields of biology,medicine
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[ noun ] the forceful expulsion of something from inside
Examples "the belching of smoke from factory chimneys" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (biology,medicine) a reflex that expels wind noisily from the stomach through the mouth
Synonyms Used in print (Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)To a much less full extent , the hebephrenic person 's belching or flatus has a comparable communicative function ; in working with these patients the therapist eventually gets to do some at_least private mulling over of the possible meaning of a belch , or the passage of flatus , not_only because he is reduced to this for lack of anything else to analyze , but also because he learns that even these animal like sounds constitute forms of communication in which , from_time_to_time , quite different things are being said , long before the patient can become sufficiently aware of these , as distinct feelings and concepts , to say them in words . |
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