Regurgitation

Definitions: Regurgitation

Regurgitation

Noun

1. Backflow of blood through a defective heart valve.

2. The reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth.

Date "regurgitation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1892. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Regurgitation

Domain	Definitions
Health	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. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Regurgitation

Synonyms: disgorgement (n), emesis (n), puking (n), vomit (n), vomiting (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Regurgitation

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Regression	Refluence, reflux; backwater, regurgitation, ebb, return; resilience reflection, reflexion (recoil); flip-flop, volte-face.
River	Body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash; spring tide, high tide, full tide; bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre; fresh, freshet; indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow; confluence, corrivation.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Regurgitation

English words defined with "regurgitation": papillary muscle ♦ rumination ♦ valvular heart disease. (references)

Specialty definitions using "regurgitation": Esophageal Motility Disorders ♦ Heart Valves. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Regurgitation" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (regurgitation).

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Commercial Usage: Regurgitation

Domain	Title
Books	Chronic Aortic Regurgitation (Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, 85) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Effortless Regurgitation...The Torture Sessions [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Regurgitation

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Ingestion of contaminated milk, followed by regurgitation and inspiration of the contaminated food, is a less common mode of transmission. (references)
		In addition, many children with Fragile X have digestive disorders, such as gastroesophageal reflux, that causes gagging, regurgitation, and discomfort. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Regurgitation

"Regurgitation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Regurgitation" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	37	56,631

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Regurgitation

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
mitral valve regurgitation	67	mitral regurgitation symptom valve	3
mitral regurgitation	52	mitral regurgitation symptom	3
tricuspid regurgitation	29	pulmonic regurgitation	3
regurgitation	29	mitral prolapse regurgitation valve	3
aortic regurgitation	26	valve regurgitation	2
tricuspid valve regurgitation	7	mitral regurgitation trace	2
case mitral presentation regurgitation valve	6	mild regurgitation tricuspid	2
aortic valve regurgitation	6	mitral regurgitation trivial	2
mild mitral regurgitation	5	food regurgitation	2
valvular regurgitation	5	regurgitation tricuspid trivial valvular	2
heart regurgitation	4	severe aortic regurgitation	2
heart valve regurgitation	4	pulmonary regurgitation	2
mitro valve regurgitation	3	acid regurgitation	2
mitral regurgitation acute	3
		acid regurgitation	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Regurgitation

Language		Translations for "regurgitation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		反流. (various references)

Danish		regurgitation, regurgitatio. (various references)

Dutch		regurgitatie. (various references)

Finnish		regurgitaatio, käänteisvirtaus. (various references)

French		régurgitation. (various references)

German		Erbrechen (be sick, bring up, force, puke, regorge, regurgitate, sickness, throw up, tipping, topping, upchuck, vomit, vomiting). (various references)

Greek		αναγωγές, αναγωγή (decrease, reduction, reference, vomiting). (various references)

Italian		rigurgito (afflux, backwater, heading-up, regurgiotation, revival, vomiting). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		逆流 (adverse tide, counter-current). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぎゃくりゅう (adverse tide, counter-current). (various references)

Manx		tilgey magh reesht (regurgitate). (various references)

Pig Latin		egurgitationray

Portuguese		regurgitação. (various references)

Russian		изрыгание. (various references)

Spanish		regurgitación. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự thổ ra sự phun ngược trở lại, sự nôn ra, sự mửa ra, sự chảy vọt trở lại, sự ựa ra. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Regurgitation

Derivations
	Words beginning with "regurgitation": regurgitations. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Regurgitation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: regergitation. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Regurgitation"

Words rhyming with "regurgitation" (pronounced 'Re*gur`gi*ta"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Regurgitation

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-i-i-n-o-r-r-t-t-u"
	-2 letters: ingurgitate.
	-3 letters: garrotting, integrator.
	-4 letters: garniture, garotting, garroting, gartering, guttering, intriguer, iterating, iteration, originate, outeating, outraging, outrating, outrigger, ragouting, rearguing, regrating, rerouting, retorting, targeting, torturing.
	-5 letters: anterior, antiriot, attiring, garoting, garotter, garrotte, gnattier, gorgerin, grainier, grittier, gritting, grottier, groutier, grouting, grungier, interior, intrigue, irrigate, irritant, irritate, nitrator, orangier, outrange, retirant, retiring, rigatoni, rogueing, rotating.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-g-i-i-n-o-r-r-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: regurgitations.
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