| regurgitant | Regurgitating; flowing backward. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| regurgitant fraction | The amount of blood regurgitated into a cardiac chamber divided by the stroke output; normally, no blood regurgitates; in patients with severe valvular lesions such as mitral or aortic insufficiency, regurgitation can approach 80%; this fraction affords a quantitative measure of the severity of the valvular lesion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| regurgitant murmur | A murmur due to leakage or backward flow at one of the valvular orifices of the heart. (05 Mar 2000) |
| regurgitate | To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back. "The food may regurgitatem the stomach into the oesophagus and mouth." (Quain) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| regurgitation | <cardiology, gastroenterology> 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 (18 Nov 1997) |
| regurgitation jaundice | Jaundice due to biliary obstruction, the bile pigment having been conjugated and secreted by the hepatic cells and then reabsorbed into the bloodstream. (05 Mar 2000) |