Mitral valve regurgitation means that one of the valves in your heart-the mitral valve-is letting blood leak backward into the heart. Heart valves work like one-way gates, helping blood flow in one direction between heart chambers or in and out of the heart. The mitral valve is on the left side of your heart.
acculturation. [Ékulâ²chÉrÄâ²shÉn]. 1 the process of adopting the cultural traits or social patterns of a different population group. 2 the modification of culture of a group resulting from association with another group.
Whereas enculturation is the learning of the appropriate behavior of one's own culture, acculturation is the learning of appropriate behavior of one's host culture. One enters a new culture, in effect, as a child and is enculturated into the new society through the process of adaptation to that society.