Usually means: Openness or unobstructed condition of passage.
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  1. patency: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. patency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. patency: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. patency: Collins English Dictionary
  5. patency: Vocabulary.com
  6. patency: Wordnik
  7. patency: Wiktionary
  8. patency: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. patency: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. patency: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. patency: Dictionary.com
  12. Patency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. patency: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. patency: Rhymezone
  15. Patency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. patency: Free Dictionary
  17. patency: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. patency: Dictionary/thesaurus

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
  4. patency: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (patency)

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

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