patulous
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Tailed; lower wings with obtuse patulous tails.
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Tailed; lower wings with obtuse patulous tails.
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But when a large amount of highly-colored bile is being secreted, as in relapsing fever, it seems clear that the obstruction of a certain number of minute ducts would cause sufficient resorption of the bile to induce jaundice of varying degrees of intensity, while at the same time allowing a flow of bile through the patulous ducts.
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Ponfick has shown that these are venous infarctions, the arterioles leading to them being patulous.
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In a marked hemorrhage the only way to save the mother is to empty the uterus, so that it may contract and thus close the patulous vessels.
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