patency
Americannoun
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the state of being patent.
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Medicine/Medical. the condition of not being blocked or obstructed.
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Phonetics. openness of articulation, found more or less in all phonemes except stops.
noun
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the condition of being obvious
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the state of a bodily passage, duct, etc, of being open or unobstructed
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phonetics the degree to which the vocal tract remains unobstructed in the articulation of a speech sound See also closure
Etymology
Origin of patency
Example Sentences
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So that tells us at least in this case, in this one study, that the patency effect is incredibly powerful.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2024
Often our talk was as irrelevant to patency as are wings.
From Friendship Village by Zona Gale
It is clear that they thus secured patency of the air-passages after these had become occluded.
From Makers of Modern Medicine by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
The phenomenon of "blue-disease," or congenital cyanosis, is due to the patency of the foremen ovale, which, instead of closing at birth, persists sometimes to adult life.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
The more the present defective state of our scientific organization is commented on, the more likely is it to be remedied; for the patency of error is ever a sure prelude to its extirpation.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. by Various
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