Term: regurgitation: backflow of blood through a defective heart valve
Candidate hypernym: backflow: a flow that returns toward its source → 1
Candidate hypernym: hindrance: the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding → 0
Candidate hypernym: centaurium: genus of low-growing herbs mostly of northern hemisphere having flowers with protruding spirally twisted anthers → 0
Candidate hypernym: blood pressure: the pressure of the circulating blood against the walls of the blood vessels; results from the systole of the left ventricle of the heart; sometimes measured for a quick evaluation of a person's health → 0
Candidate hypernym: vernier scale: a small movable scale that slides along a main scale; the small scale is calibrated to indicate fractional divisions of the main scale → 0
Candidate hypernym: quotability: the quality of being worthy of being quoted → 0
Candidate hypernym: day: the period of time taken by a particular planet (e.g. Mars) to make a complete rotation on its axis → 0
Candidate hypernym: stewardess: a woman steward on an airplane → 0
Candidate hypernym: desalination: the removal of salt (especially from sea water) → 0
Candidate hypernym: latency: the state of being not yet evident or active → 0
Candidate hypernym: bracken: fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions → 0