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n. - A small mechanical device for controlling the flow of a fluid

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Usage examples (5)
  • Interventricular valvule: of heart, lies in front of seluilunar valve.
  • Oesophageal valve: a funnel-like folding of the oesophagus, extending into the chylific ventricle in some insects, and forming a valve that controls the entrance of food into...
  • Angujlius ubi valvule coartlattt evadunt concava. —
  • Cardo extus umbonibus minutis, intus singulse valvule constans lamina rotundata, introrsum versa, concava; in al - tera testa juxta hunc cardinem est squamula erecta,...
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