Bauhin valve


ileal papilla

[TA] seen in the cadaver as a bilabial prominence of the terminal ileum protruding into the large intestine at the cecocolic junction; in a living person, it appears as a truncated cone with a star-shaped orifice. Synonym(s): papilla ilealis [TA], Bauhin valve, ileocecal eminence, ileocecal valve, ileocolic valve, Tulp valve, Tulpius valve, valva ileocecalis, valve of Varolius

Bauhin valve

(bō′an″, bō-an′) [Gaspard (Caspar)Bauhin, Swiss botanist and anatomist, 1560–1624] The ileocecal valve.

Bauhin,

Gaspard, Swiss anatomist, 1560-1624. Bauhin gland - one of the small mixed glands deeply placed near the apex of the tongue on each side of the frenulum. Synonym(s): anterior lingual glandBauhin valve - Synonym(s): ileocecal valve