MEANING
A rumbling sound caused by the movement of gas or fluid through the gut.
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- audible borborygmi
- a low borborygmus
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A low borborygmus broke the silence at the table.
The examiner recorded the audible borborygmi without treating them as proof of illness.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular borborygmus; plural borborygmi. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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