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(medicine, biology) Of or pertaining to valves, such as those of the heart. quotations
It was Charles Sherrington (1857–1952) who named that valvular connection (later found to be a gap) the synapse.
1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 516
Like a valve. examples