The action or process of gurgling or swallowing; a medical term sometimes used to describe regurgitation or the backward flow of contents.
From Latin 'gurgitare' (to swallow) plus the suffix '-tion,' creating an abstract noun. Related to 'regurgitation' and used in older medical literature.
Gurgitation is a curious medical term that shows how physicians once had multiple Latin-derived words for bodily processes—modern medicine has mostly standardized on terms like 'regurgitation,' making this word largely obsolete.
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