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patulous
[pach-uh-luhs]
adjective
open; gaping; expanded.
Botany.
spreading, as a tree or its boughs.
spreading slightly, as a calyx.
bearing the flowers loose or dispersed, as a peduncle.
patulous
/ ˈæʊə /
adjective
botany spreading widely or expanded
patulous branches
raregaping
Other 51Թ Forms
- patulously adverb
- patulousness noun
- ˈ貹ٳܱdzܲԱ noun
- ˈ貹ٳܱdzܲ adverb
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of patulous1
Example Sentences
Tailed; lower wings with obtuse patulous tails.
Tailed; lower wings with obtuse patulous tails.
Ponfick has shown that these are venous infarctions, the arterioles leading to them being patulous.
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.
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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