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.
Saturation is the colorfulness of a color relative to its own brightness. Though this general concept is intuitive, terms such as chroma, saturation, purity, and intensity are often used without great precision, and even when well-defined depend greatly on the specific color model in use.aturation is one of three coordinates in the HSL and HSV color spaces. The saturation of a color is determined by a combination of light intensity and how much it is distributed across the spectrum of different wavelengths.