The abdomen is distended and painful in the right lower quadrant, where borborygmi can be heard.

They lift their huge heads to look at us, mouths agape, uttering borborygmi that could come from either end.

A. The rumbling or growling sounds of the digestive tract, which scientists call by the very expressive word borborygmi, represent the muscular contractions and expansions of peristalsis, the process that moves the contents of the stomach and intestines onward and downward.