patulous

Tailed; lower wings with obtuse patulous tails.

Tailed; lower wings with obtuse patulous tails.

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.

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

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.