Crossword clues for patency
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Patency \Pa"ten*cy\, n. [See Patent.]
The condition of being open, enlarged, or spread.
The state of being patent or evident.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from patent + -cy.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context medicine English) The degree of openness of a tube, such as a blood vessel or catheter; the relative absence of blockage. Measured in percent. 2 (context uncountable English) obviousness; clarity.
WordNet
n. the openness (lack of obstruction) of a bodily passage or duct
the property of being easy to see and understand [syn: obviousness, noticeability, noticeableness]
Usage examples of "patency".
From this time the man speedily failed, and after his death there were cicatricial signs found, particularly on the wall of the left ventricle, together with patency of the interventricular septum, with signs of cicatrization about this rent.
It was open on London, set for nonpatency and a nonvisible matrix on the far side: this side would have been invisible to her, too, except that she could see where Arhu had carefully laid in the "graphic" Speech-form of her name, and Urruah's and his own, in the portion of the spell matrix which controlled selective visibility and patency configurations.
Rhiow sighed and looked up at the elliptical multicolored shimmer of the worldgate matrix which hung in the air before them, the colors that presently ran through its warp and woof indicating a waiting state, no patency, no pending transits.