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meteorism(dictionary)

incessant (iou) and meteorism (medicine)


incessant (iou)



incessant adjective & adverb. LME.
[(Old & mod. French from) late Latin incessant-, formed as IN-3 + Latin cessant- pres. ppl stem of cessare CEASE verb: see -ANT1.]
A. adjective.
Ceaseless, continual, unremitting. LME.
D. Lessing The noise of the wind was an incessant metallic whispering. W. Soyinka Daodu was an incessant conversationalist.
Never-ending, perpetual. M16-M17.
b. adverb. Without pause, unceasingly. poet. M16.
incessancy noun the quality of being incessant E17.
incessantly adverb (a) unceasingly; (b) without pause, immediately: LME.
incessantness noun E18.

meteorism (medicine)


meteorism
Tympanites, the presence of gas in the abdomen or intestine.

Origin: Gr. Meteorizein = to raise up