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Valentine's test (medicine) and tatty(2) (iou)


Valentine's test (medicine)


Valentine's test -->
three-glass test


The bladder is emptied by passing urine into a series of 3-ounce test tubes, and the contents of the first and the last are examined; the first tube contains the washings from the anterior urethra, the second, material from the bladder, and the last, material from the posterior urethra, prostate, and seminal vesicles.

Synonym: Valentine's test.


tatty(2) (iou)



tatty adjective2. ['tati] colloq. M20.
[from TAT noun4 + -Y1. Cf. TATTY adjective1.]
Untidy, scruffy; shabby, worn, neglected. Also, of inferior quality, tawdry.
R. Cobb The Pantiles looked tatty and rather forlorn. A. Guinness I couldn't undertake to sell..a very tatty edition of the complete works of Dickens.
tattily adverb M20.
tattiness noun M20.