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REGURGITATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth
Synonyms:
disgorgement; emesis; puking; regurgitation; vomit; vomiting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("regurgitation" is a kind of...):
ejection; expulsion; forcing out; projection (the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting)
inborn reflex; innate reflex; instinctive reflex; physiological reaction; reflex; reflex action; reflex response; unconditioned reflex (an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "regurgitation"):
rumination (regurgitation of small amounts of food; seen in some infants after feeding)
haematemesis; hematemesis (vomiting blood)
hyperemesis (severe and excessive vomiting)
Derivation:
regurgitate (eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Recall after rote memorization
Example:
he complained that school was just memorization and regurgitation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("regurgitation" is a kind of...):
recall; recollection; reminiscence (the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort))
Derivation:
regurgitate (repeat after memorization)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Backflow of blood through a defective heart valve
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("regurgitation" is a kind of...):
backflow; backflowing (a flow that returns toward its source)
Derivation:
regurgitate (pour or rush back)
Context examples:
Prolapse of the mitral valve, often with regurgitation, associated with myxomatous proliferation of the leaflets of the mitral valve.
(Mitral Valve Prolapse, Food and Drug Administration)
Effortless regurgitation of food, milk, and saliva that commonly occurs in infants, usually right after feeding or burping.
(Infantile Gastroesophageal Reflux, NCI Thesaurus)
A fairly common and often benign valvular heart disorder characterized by redundancy or hooding of mitral valve leaflets so that they prolapse into the left atrium, often causing mitral regurgitation.
(Mitral Valve Prolapse, NCI Thesaurus)
When I passed outside, however, and pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sometimes it causes regurgitation.
(Heart Valve Diseases, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
High risk features includes at least one of the following: history of accelerating tempo of ischemic symptoms in preceding 48 hours; character of pain - prolonged ongoing (greater than 20 minutes) rest pain; clincal findings - pulmonary edema, most likely due to ischemia or new or worsening mitral regurgitation murmur; or S3 or new worsening rales or Hypotension, bradycardia, tachycardia or age greater than 75 years; ECG - angina at rest with transient ST-segment changes greater than 0.5 mm or bundle-branch block, new or presumed new or sustained ventricular tachycardia; cardiac markers - NSTEMI patients with elevated cardiac TnT, Tnl, or CK-MB.
(Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for High Risk Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction or Unstable Angina, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)
