1 Belching, bloating/distention, and flatulence are evaluated with a medical history, simple abdominal X-rays, small intestinal X-rays, gastric emptying studies, ultrasound examination, computerized tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), tests for maldigestion and malabsorption, and hydrogen breath tests.
The history of the world is peopled with dauntless men and women who refused to be subdued or tamed by fear. The word dauntless can be traced back to Latin domare, meaning to tame or to subdue.. When our verb daunt (a domare descendant borrowed by way of Anglo-French) was first used in the 14th century, it shared these meanings.
The noun dirge comes from the Latin dirige, which means âdirect,â and is the beginning of a prayer that translates as âDirect my way in your sight, O Lord my God.â Dirge can still have a religious meaning, but it can also be any sad and mournful song, poem, or hymn composed or performed in memory of someone who has died.