Valsalva
noun
Valsalva is a noun meaning “Ellipsis of Valsalva device” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-L-S-A-L-V-A, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Valsalva is Valsalvas.
What does Valsalva mean?
noun
- 1
Ellipsis of Valsalva device.
- 2
Ellipsis of Valsalva maneuver.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Valsalva
- Valsalvas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Valsalva?
Valsalva appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 136,649th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does Valsalva come from?
From Italian Valsalva.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).