The Collaborative International Dictionary
Valvular \Valv"u*lar\, a. [Cf. F. valvulaire.]
Of or pertaining to a valve or valves; specifically (Med.), of or pertaining to the valves of the heart; as, valvular disease.
Containing valves; serving as a valve; opening by valves; valvate; as, a valvular capsule.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context medicine biology English) Of or pertaining to valves, such as those of the heart. 2 Like a valve.
WordNet
adj. relating to or operating by means of valves
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "valvular".
There were also hearts in which the interventricular septum was deficient, the ductus arteriosus patent, or some valvular malformation present.
When associated with acute rheumatism, the disease is only in rare instances directly fatal, but in the great majority of cases it leaves permanent organic changes, which sooner or later develop into valvular affections, and these may eventually destroy life.
It produces a thickening and hardening of the membrane lining the heart, and generally causes a retraction, adhesion, and degeneration of some of the valves of the heart, thus bringing on valvular disease.
Thus, in obstruction of the orifice at the junction of the aorta with the left ventricle, one of the most frequent of valvular lesions, a murmur, generally harsh in character, is heard with the first sound of the heart, with greatest intensity directly over the normal position or the aortic semilunar valves.
More frequently, however, dilatation is the result of valvular lesions, and is associated with hypertrophy, there being an increase in the thickness of the walls with a diminution of the contractile power.
The hypertrophy from valvular lesions goes on increasing until it reaches a certain stage, when dilatation commences, the two conditions then being associated.
The valvular arrangements of the blood-vessels are unapproached by any artificial apparatus, and the arrangements for preventing friction are so perfect that two surfaces will play on each other for fourscore years or more and never once trouble their owner by catching or rubbing so as to be felt or heard.
Beyond a slight valvular trouble of the heart, Hortense Darnley had been perfectly healthy.
Little pain was involved in all that was needed to discover the circulation of the blood, which was inferred from the valvular construction of the veins, and then easily substantiated.
For myself, I stick steadily to the assertion that I have an obscure valvular disease of the heart, and so sleep undisturbed in the new wing of the house where Aunt Barbara, and great-great-grandmamma Bridget and Master Anthony never penetrate.
The terrible physical strain brings on hypertrophy and valvular diseases of the heart, and many of them suffer from hernia.
The thin webs on its feet must each have been three feet across, and there must have been some kind of valvular action to break the suction created as its weight came on each pad in turn.