patulous
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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 Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
The gland-ducts are enlarged, patulous or plugged with sebaceous and epithelial matter.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
Weather jolly, but altogether too hot for anything but lying on the grass "under the tegmination of the patulous fage," as the poet observes.
From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Thomas Henry Huxley
Yet, by reason of the patulous elms, he had seen nothing of them.
From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by J. E. (James Edmund) Vincent
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 Chevalier Jackson
