| PVL | Panton-Valentine leucocidin |
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| Flood, Valentine | <person> Irish anatomist and surgeon, 1800-1847. See: Flood's ligament. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
| flood | 1. To bleed profusely from the uterus, as after childbirth or in cases of menorrhagia. 2. Colloquialism for a profuse menstrual discharge. Origin: A.S. Flod (05 Mar 2000) |
| flood fever | See Typhus, scrub. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Flood's ligament | <anatomy> A band of the coracohumeral ligament, attached to the lower part of the lesser tuberosity of the humerus. (05 Mar 2000) |
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