(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.
Spit
Definition:
(n.) A long, slender, pointed rod, usually of iron, for holding meat while roasting.
(n.) A small point of land running into the sea, or a long, narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea; as, a spit of sand.
(n.) The depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful.
(n.) To thrust a spit through; to fix upon a spit; hence, to thrust through or impale; as, to spit a loin of veal.
(n.) To spade; to dig.
(v. i.) To attend to a spit; to use a spit.
(imp. & p. p.) of Spit
(n.) To eject from the mouth; to throw out, as saliva or other matter, from the mouth.
(n.) To eject; to throw out; to belch.
(n.) The secretion formed by the glands of the mouth; spitle; saliva; sputum.
(v. i.) To throw out saliva from the mouth.
(v. i.) To rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
(2) There was nothing accidental about Saffiyah Khan’s easy nonchalance, grinning through the spitting rage of Ian Crossland at the EDL rally in Birmingham city centre at the weekend; Ieshia Evans knew there was more power in calm when she approached the police in Baton Rouge last summer.
(3) Venom entered the eyes of 9 patients spat at by the spitting cobra, Naja nigricollis.
(4) For every “coterie” of Audens, Spenders and Isherwoods, there is a chorus of George Orwells, Roy Campbells and Dylan Thomases, spitting vitriol.
(5) Those who remember the Two Davids of the 1987 SDP-Liberal Alliance will recall the exquisite agony only too well, cruelly captured by the Spitting Image puppet of little Steel perched in big Owen's pocket.
(6) Raised in Manchester, Coogan began his comedy career in Ipswich in the 1980s, supplementing stand-up with voiceover work and impressions for Spitting Image, before moving to Radio 4 to work with Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci on On the Hour.
(7) Unlike my little brother, who used to store his peas in his cheeks like a hamster – he would then ask to be allowed to go to the loo where he would spit and flush – I always liked vegetables as a child (and yes, I know that, technically, avocado is a fruit; but its savoury qualities are such that I am going to count it, in this instance, as a vegetable).
(8) She might as well spit "Don't tell me I can't let my personal life affect my professional judgment" through a mouthful of Jaffa Cakes.
(9) In addition, SPIT does not require sophisticated equipment or expensive reagents.
(10) For starters, any Swiss finishing school would definitely have an issue with the volume and velocity of spit that gets produced on the pitch.
(11) Both aneurysm were successfully clipped but Mark remained hemiplegic with severe physical and behavioural problems, including incontinence, sexual disinhibition, aggression and uninhibited spitting.
(12) Trying to outspit a spitting cobra This was another mad challenge for my series Michaela's Wild Challenge!
(13) However, a considerable proportion of the respondents harbored incorrect beliefs regarding mosquito transmission and dangers to blood donors, and many showed uncertainty or incorrect knowledge regarding possible HIV transmission by biting, spitting, or use of public toilets.
(14) 2006 : Fifa vice-president Jack Warner welcomes questions from an investigative reporter asking about alleged corruption: "I would spit on you – but I will not dignify you with my spit ... go fuck yourself ... no foreigner, particularly a white foreigner, will come to my country and harass me."
(15) They would then spit on batons and rape us with them.
(16) Most of the restaurants in China to me smelled dirty, though what I was smelling was likely some unfamiliar ingredient, and I was allowing the things I'd seen earlier in the day – the spitting and snot blowing, etc – to fill in the blanks.
(17) But there was also a diversion into why, across the industrialised world, the numbers of diagnosed autistic people have increased, and two sentences that caused me to spit out my toast.
(18) There, with pleasing historical symmetry, it was placed within spitting distance of the statue of another famous French Jew, three times prime minister Leon Blum.
(19) The letter did not directly mention Muslims, and began instead by attacking people who drop litter or spit on buses.
(20) In June, the owner, Oliver Poiss, threw a huge summer solstice party with six wild boar roasting on spits and a $10,000 equipment giveaway.