Associations to the word «Patency»

Wiktionary

PATENCY, noun. (medicine) The degree of openness of a tube, such as a blood vessel or catheter; the relative absence of blockage. Measured in percent.
PATENCY, noun. (uncountable) Obviousness; clarity.

Dictionary definition

PATENCY, noun. The openness (lack of obstruction) of a bodily passage or duct.
PATENCY, noun. The property of being easy to see and understand.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope