What's the difference between honk and regurgitate?

Honk


Definition:

  • (n.) The cry of a wild goose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I've danced and I still want to dance," he said over the noise of drumming and honking cars.
  • (2) After Karadzic's arrest in 2008, the streets of Bosnian cities were lined with honking cars, but after that of Ratko Mladic last year, there was no such celebration.
  • (3) From his 19th-floor newsroom Eurípedes Alcântara enjoys a spectacular view over the "new Brazil"; helicopters flit through the afternoon sky, shiny new cars honk their way across town, tower blocks and luxury shopping centres sprout like turnips from the urban sprawl.
  • (4) In London, Trafalgar Square and Whitehall were jammed from the start of the planned "go slow" at 2pm, as thousands of black cabs gathered honking their horns, bringing total gridlock to the centre of the capital, while supporters waved banners and started occasionally chanting: "Boris, out!"
  • (5) He won’t look at you when you pull up beside him, honking about decorum and proper manners.
  • (6) Thomas Wiggins – the man urging cars to honk as they passed – dropped his face into his hands.
  • (7) His head pounds, “my chest gets heavy, stomach gets tight” and “I feel suffocated, anxious.” “I have difficulty breathing at the end of the day, my face is black with soot,” says Kumar, waiting for his next fare on a noisy corner in south Delhi, beside a road jammed with honking cars, trucks and buses.
  • (8) When one reaches glory is it hard to keep up,” said Arturo Vidal - who currently has ‘Campeón’ shaved into his hair, both an indisputable statement and a honking piece of hubris - said after the game.
  • (9) "More likely indoor fireworks under Balotelli's shirt," honks David Parkinson.
  • (10) Cars honk impatiently and refuse to give way to one other.
  • (11) There are more than 5m cars in Beijing, and they have transformed its once-generous thoroughfares into a noxious, honking mass.
  • (12) Honk if you think Washington is broken!” says a sign on her campaign bus.
  • (13) The mechanism of production of this honk is discussed.
  • (14) A systolic honk developed in a woman with idiopathic cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure.
  • (15) Three children with loud systolic honks were studied noninvasively with phonocardiography and echocardiography.
  • (16) Qasr-el-Aini was almost a hellish experience, with cars honking the whole time.
  • (17) Parreira had no complaints about either of the big talking points – the flight of the ball and the honk of the vuvuzela – of a so far underwhelming first round of matches: "We love them both."
  • (18) (I will not bore the boob-honking lobby with the statistics on female employment, prevalence and seniority.)
  • (19) Moscow is generally noisy with the sounds of thousands of drivers honking horns as they wait for the passing of these motorcades, which often involve a dozen cars with blue sirens wailing.
  • (20) A third study with 137 male drivers and 63 female drivers examined the interactive effects of a rifle, an aggressively connotated bumper sticker, and individual subject characteristics (sex and an exploratory index of self-perceived status) on horn honking.

Regurgitate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To throw or pour back, as from a deep or hollow place; to pour or throw back in great quantity.
  • (v. i.) To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 14-fold increase in prolonged apnea frequency immediately following regurgitation supports the hypothesis for a causal relationship between apnea and regurgitation.
  • (2) The pathoanatomy and factors associated with transient mitral regurgitation (MR) induced by myocardial ischemic stress are unknown.
  • (3) Postoperative examination revealed division of accessory pathway and no regurgitation of mitral prosthesis.
  • (4) Doppler mitral regurgitation (MR) was detected in 40 of the 47 patients (85%) with type C in 56 of the 99 (59%) with type B, and in seven of the 18 (39%) with type A.
  • (5) One child (case 1) exhibited nasal regurgitation during feeding.
  • (6) To determine the severity of regurgitation by dynamic MRI, several parameters were analyzed, including the number of slices with visible signal loss, the time course of the signal loss, and its maximal area and maximal volume.
  • (7) Without operative correction of the tricuspid valve, secondary tricuspid regurgitation can resolve following mitral valve surgery alone.
  • (8) Signs of mitral regurgitation of grade 1 could be documented angiographically in 9 patients and of grade 2 in 4 patients.
  • (9) Sixty-eight patients (mean age 49 years) were studied with contrast echocardiography (CE) and Doppler echocardiography (DE) to evaluate both methods for detecting and grading tricuspid regurgitation (TR).
  • (10) Case 2: A 40-year-old man with congestive heart failure and inflammatory signs had aortic and mitral regurgitation.
  • (11) Twelve patients had severe mitral regurgitation; successful mitral valve replacement was carried out in four patients (all with myxomatous mitral tissue).
  • (12) The sounds were loudest along the left sternal border, exhibited an increase in intensity during inspiration and were associated with right atrial gallop sounds and with murmurs of tricuspid regurgitation.
  • (13) Isolated tricuspid valve regurgitation is a rare finding after nonpenetrating chest trauma.
  • (14) Tricuspid regurgitation (TR) was diagnosed with Doppler when reverse flow in systole was recorded at and behind the closure level of the tricuspid valve.
  • (15) We conclude that in most patients undergoing aortic valvuloplasty, regurgitation does not change after the procedure.
  • (16) All patients presented with severe oropharyngeal dysphagia and frequent aspiration together with pharyngooral and pharyngonasal regurgitation.
  • (17) On a series of 170 aortic valve replacement - 100 aortic stenoses (AS) and 70 aortic regurgitations (AR) - with an early post operative death rate of 5.3% and a late one of 8% (with a minimum follow up of 1 year and an average one of 25.4 months, two electrocardiographic and radiological checks could be done on 123 patients, 12 months on an average after the operation, and again for 116 patients, 21 months after the operation.
  • (18) In all cases, the maximal velocity of the tricuspid regurgitation jet was measured by continuous wave Doppler ultrasound and the systolic pressure gradient between right ventricle and the right atrium was calculated by the modified Bernoulli equation.
  • (19) In a multivariate Cox model analysis, the independent correlates of long-term survival were emergent operation with cardiogenic shock (multivariate mortality rate ratio [RR] = 14.0), use of a postoperative intraaortic balloon pump (RR = 3.9), ejection fraction less than 50% (RR = 2.4), preoperative history of congestive heart failure (RR = 2.2), cardiopulmonary bypass time (RR = 1.4 for each 30-minute increment), uncorrected mitral regurgitation (RR = 1.5 for each increment of angiographic gradation), left main coronary artery narrowing (RR = 1.7) and diabetes (RR = 1.6).
  • (20) This report details the pulsed Doppler echocardiographic findings in two patients who developed severe periprosthetic mitral regurgitation after porcine mitral valve replacement.