Lexic.us

Definition of Regurgitation

1. Noun. Backflow of blood through a defective heart valve.

2. Noun. Recall after rote memorization. "He complained that school was just memorization and regurgitation"

3. Noun. The reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth.

Definition of Regurgitation

1. n. The act of flowing or pouring back by the orifice of entrance

Definition of Regurgitation

1. Noun. The act of regurgitating. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Regurgitation

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Regurgitation

1. A backward flowing, as the casting up of undigested food or the backward flowing of blood into the heart or between the chambers of the heart when a valve is incompetent. Origin: L. Gurgitare = to flood This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Regurgitation

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Literary usage of Regurgitation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practical Diagnosis: The Use of Symptoms in the Diagnosis of Disease by Hobart Amory Hare (1897)
"Aortic regurgitation and stenosis and mitral regurgitation. 2. Mitral stenosis and regurgitation. 3. Aortic stenosis and mitral regurgitation. 4. ..."

2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1891)
"THE diagnosis of " Mitral regurgitation " cannot be considered a sufficient one. Incompetence of the mitral valves is brought about by a variety of morbid ..."

3. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"In Flint's murmur, however, there is always an aortic regurgitation; ... Tricuspid Orifice regurgitation Etiology.—This condition is much more frequently ..."

4. Physical Diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1919)
"Whenever we find aortic regurgitation in a young or middle aged man with no ... Since in syphilitic aortitis the regurgitation is due to a primary infection ..."

5. Diseases of the Stomach: A Textbook for Practitioners and Students by Max Einhorn (1896)
"In nervous regurgitation the ejected matter does not show any abnormal ... This is different if regurgitation is the result of an organic affection of the ..."

6. Diseases of the Stomach: A Text-book for Practitioners and Students by Max Einhorn (1898)
"regurgitation denotes a condition in which either liquids or liquids mixed with ... In nervous regurgitation the ejected matter does not show any abnormal ..."

7. A Text-book of the Practice of Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1907)
"His results showed that of these 557 were cases of mitral regurgitation, 136 were aortic stenosis, 47 were aortic regurgitation, 32 were mitral stenosis, ..."

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