Word of the Day...borborygmus

Borborygmus, you ask?  Yes, borborygmus, it is a noun, or borborygmi as a plural.  According to Dictionary.com, it is Greek originating in 1710-20.  Its full definition is "a rumbling or gurgling sound caused by the movement of gas in the intestines."  No, it is not liken to flatulence; it is hunger pains, the stomach growling.  Due to the lack of sustenance in the stomach, and only build up of air.  For some people, nausea can accompany borborygmus, a headache, lightheaded, or flatulence.  An easy cure for most people is to simply eat something nutritious that will sustain the body for at least four hours.  I hear tell, from other medical terms sites, that excessive borborygmi would indicate a problem, as would none existent borborygmus.  Because the intestines are in constant motion downward, there is always "bowel sounds", thus to have none would mean a problem exists and to have extremely loud noises emanating from the region of the abdomen would mean other issues.  There doesn't seem to be a real story behind this strange word, except that it has been accused of being "related to...the French borborgyme", according to WorldWideWords.org.  Borborygmic, its adjective form, has been spotted in the literary world describing noising plumbing and radiators in books by Vladimir Nabokov and E Fenwik.