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regurgitation|rɪˌgɜːdʒɪˈteɪʃən|
[ad. med.L. regurgitātiōn-em, n. of action f. regurgitāre: see prec. and cf. F. régurgitation (16th c.).]
1. The act of pouring or gushing back; the fact of re-issuing or being ejected again from a receptacle. Chiefly Med. with reference either to the blood or to food.
1601Holland Pliny II. 148 When the mouth is bitter, by occasion of the regurgitation of choller from liver. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 73 Upon the regurgitation of the menstrues. 1698Tyson in Phil. Trans XX. 131 A Regurgitation of the Fæces into the Stomach. 1747tr. Astruc's Fevers 22 The plentiful regurgitation of the blood on the heart. 1782A. Monro Compar. Anat. (ed. 3) 49 There seems to be no way of the bile getting into the gall bladder but by regurgitation. 1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 539/1 Regurgitation is prevented by a semilunar valve at the termination of each vein. 1850Patents Abridgments, Ice Making Machines (1877) 13 The valves in the induction pipes of the pumps ‘do not close completely but allow a partial regurgitation’. 1880Garrod & Baxter Mat. Med. 402 A patient..who suffered from vomiting or regurgitation after each meal.
transf.1847Sir H. Taylor Notes from Life (ed. 3) 75 When it begins with passion, there must needs be a period of collapse and regurgitation. 1869Farrar Fam. Speech ii. (1873) 79 In the case of this great Slavonic nation there has been, as it were, a regurgitation of the Aryan wave.
†2. The act of swallowing again. Obs. rare—0.
1658Phillips, and some later Dicts. |