patulous

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Yet, by reason of the patulous elms, he had seen nothing of them.

From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by Vincent, J. E. (James Edmund)

Ponfick has shown that these are venous infarctions, the arterioles leading to them being patulous.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

In seven months the abdomen presented the signs of pregnancy, but the cervix was soft and patulous; the sound entered three inches and was followed by some hemorrhage.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

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.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

It is all a matter of "plumbing" i.e., clearing out the "pipes," and maintaining a patulous airway.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier