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patency|ˈpeɪtənsɪ|
[f. patent: see -ency.]
1. The state or condition of being open or exposed to view; openness; manifestness, obviousness.
1656Blount Glossogr., Patency, a lying open, or uncovered. 1658Osborn Adv. Son Wks. (1673) 202 From this patency, his Policy was not only enervated, but rendred more destructive. 1843Blackw. Mag. LIV. 525 The patency of error is ever a sure prelude to its extirpation. 1886J. E. C. Welldon Aristotle's Rhet. 142 The patency and notoriety of the facts.
2. The condition of being open, expanded, or unobstructed, as a passage. (In scientific use.)
1845G. Moore Power of Soul (1846) 149 The patency of his bowels. 1861Bumstead Ven. Dis. (1879) 302 Unless the patency of the canal be kept up. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 700 Complete patency of the foramen ovale. |