Why Does Your Stomach Growl?

Well, Mexican food could do it, but doctors call it "borborygmi," which sounds a bit like the sound you hear.

• According to Websters:
• Main Entry: bor·bo·ryg·mus
• Pronunciation: "bor-b&-'rig-m&s
• Function: noun
• Inflected Form(s):
• plural bor·bo·ryg·mi /-"mI/
• Etymology: New Latin, from Greek borborygmos, from borboryzein to rumble
• Date: circa 1796
• : intestinal rumbling caused by moving gas

It happens when your stomach walls squeeze together in an attempt to mix and digest food and there's no food there. Gases and digestive juices slosh around in your empty stomach and before you know it - borborygmi.

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