a. Med. [f. the name of the Italian anatomist A. M. Valsalva (1666–1723).] Associated with Valsalva’s researches on the organs of hearing; introduced or used by Valsalva.
1878. in St. George’s Hosp. Rep. (1879), IX. 789. On Valsalvan inflation, the whole … bulges out into a whitish swelling. Ibid. (1879), 791. After some trouble, the left tympanum becomes inflated by the Valsalvan method.
