Bloat may refer to:

Biology and medicine

Bloat (canine) Gastric dilatation volvulus (GDV), also known as gastric dilation, twisted stomach, or gastric torsion, is a medical condition that affects dogs in which the stomach becomes overstretched and rotated by excessive gas content. The word bloat is ...

(gastric dilatation volvulus), an overstretched and rotated stomach in dogs * Bloat (ruminant) (ruminal tympany), an excessive volume of gas in ruminants *

Bloating Abdominal bloating (or simply bloating) is a short-term disease that affects the gastrointestinal tract. Bloating is generally characterized by an excess buildup of gas, air or fluids in the stomach. A person may have feelings of tightness, pressu ...

, an abnormal swelling or enlargement of the abdomen * Gas bloat syndrome, a complication of

Nissen fundoplication A Nissen fundoplication, or laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication when performed via laparoscopic surgery, is a surgical procedure to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and hiatal hernia. In GERD, it is usually performed when medical ther ...

surgery

Computing

* Code bloat, computer code that is unnecessarily long, slow, or wasteful of resources *

Software bloat Software bloat is a process whereby successive versions of a computer program become perceptibly slower, use more memory, disk space or processing power, or have higher hardware requirements than the previous version, while making only dubious us ...

, uncontrolled and damaging growth of a software system through successive versions

Other uses

* Bloat (''Wild Cards''), a character in the ''Wild Cards'' book series * Bloat, a

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and the character in the ''

Finding Nemo ''Finding Nemo'' is a 2003 American computer-animated comedy-drama adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by Andrew Stanton with co-direction by Lee Unkrich, the screenplay was w ...

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