| Valentin | Gabriel G., German-Swiss physiologist, 1810-1883. See: Valentin's corpuscles, Valentin's ganglion, Valentin's nerve. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Valentin's corpuscles | Small bodies, probably amyloid, found occasionally in nerve tissue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Valentin's ganglion | A ganglion on the superior alveolar nerve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Valentin's nerve | <anatomy, nerve> A nerve that connects the pterygopalatine ganglion with the abducens nerve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| valentine | 1. A sweetheart chosen on St. Valentine's Day. 2. A letter containing professions of love, or a missive of a sentimental, comic, or burlesque character, sent on St. Valentine's Day. St. Valentine's Day, a day sacred to St. Valentine; the 14th of February. It was a very old notion, alluded to by Shakespeare, that on this day birds begin to mate. Hence, perhaps, arose the custom of sending love tokens at that time. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Valentine's position | A supine position on a table with double inclined plane so as to cause flexion at the hips; used to facilitate urethral irrigation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Valentine's test | The bladder is emptied by passing urine into a series of 3-ounce test tubes, and the contents of the first and the last are examined; the first tube contains the washings from the anterior urethra, the second, material from the bladder, and the last, material from the posterior urethra, prostate, and seminal vesicles. Synonym: Valentine's test. (05 Mar 2000) |