What's the difference between clarity and patency?
Clarity
Definition:
(n.) Clearness; brightness; splendor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, the backing away from any specific yield targets is exactly the lack of clarity that the FX market will not like."
(2) Correction of structure mottle helps enhance the image clarity.
(3) The modified CIRS was operationalized with a manual of guidelines geared toward the geriatric patient and for clarity was designated the CIRS(G).
(4) O'Donnell said he had decided to publish his guidance now to ensure there was clarity before the election.
(5) Already much work has been done to re-establish enduring components for Labour's electoral success: clarity of strategy, effective rebuttal, and superior field organisation with our network of community organisers.
(6) This technique results in a marked improvement in corneal clarity and visualization of anterior chamber structures.
(7) Businesses need a framework – clarity and stability.
(8) Everything that was, is more: brutality, injustice, poverty, anger; but also clarity, knowledge, understanding and, possibly, determination.
(9) Analysis of the clinical performance of the media indicated that in 82% of the traces water was equal to or better than gel in clarity, and in 90% of traces water was equal to or better than gel in suitability for diagnosis.
(10) There is less clarity on the effects of stress on survival rates of cancer patients.
(11) The orbital contents are also displayed with clarity equivalent to that obtained in man.
(12) To lend clarity to this discrepancy, we collected 40 serum samples before and after blood transfusion therapy of first-time cadaveric renal allograft recipients and evaluated each for T cell and B cell cytotoxic antibodies using an Amos modified complement-dependent microlymphocytotoxicity assay.
(13) Governor Mark Carney and his colleagues on the monetary policy committee had already faced criticism after sidelining a "forward guidance" policy – designed to bring clarity over the path of interest rates – just six months after its introduction.
(14) The data demonstrate with clarity that neurons containing both the mRNA for OX and the peptide CRF are present in subpopulations of magnocellular and parvocellular neurons of the PVN.
(15) We call for a more structured policy for tall buildings, with transparency for the public and clarity for developers.
(16) The reliability of magnitude-estimation scaling as a measure of overall clarity of speech was investigated.
(17) When he speaks he does so with clarity and conviction, a quiet authority, and with rare understanding and analysis.
(18) This now requires clarity about standards and expectations, that these are monitored and where necessary practice is challenged, and that there is a substantial programme in place to audit and report on practice, and training and briefings to skill up workers to practise well.
(19) The purpose of this Perspective is to provide some clarity to this rapidly evolving area of selective phosphodiesterase inhibitors.
(20) These findings demonstrate that differentiating children by sibling network type does offer some clarity to our understanding of the complex association between gender and patterns of parent-care.
Patency
Definition:
(n.) The condition of being open, enlarged, or spread.
(n.) The state of being patent or evident.
Example Sentences:
(1) Experiments have been performed using CO2 laser-assisted microvascular anastomoses, and they demonstrated the following features, in comparison with conventional anastomoses: ease in technique; less time consumption; less tissue inflammation; early wound healing; equivalency of patency rate and inner pressure tolerance; but only about 50 percent of the tensile strength of manual-suture anastomosis.
(2) Central assessment of the angiograms revealed a patent infarct-related artery in 78 patients (patency rate 66%, 95% confidence limits 57 to 74%).
(3) This noninvasive but precise imaging modality demonstrates the potential value of using MRI to evaluate the diameter of small vessels, including the postoperative monitoring of arterial bypass graft patency in peripheral regions.
(4) a) To determine the frequency of perforations in latex surgical gloves before, during, and after surgical and dental procedures; b) to evaluate the topographical distribution of perforations in latex surgical gloves after surgical and dental procedures; and c) to validate methods of testing for latex surgical glove patency.
(5) We use this procedure to assess the excitability of the auditory nerve, the patency of the cochlea and to detect undesirable side effects of electrical stimulation, such as facial nerve activation.
(6) Forty-eight reinterventions in 34 limbs were required to restore or maintain graft patency in thrombosed or failing grafts.
(7) Corresponding rates for secondary patency at 6 years were 51.4% and 76.4% (p < 0.005).
(8) No patient had a previous infarction, and none underwent intervention seeking to restore coronary patency.
(9) The "animal" rings almost constantly caused local phlebitis, but these changes were not reflected in the patency rates at one week.
(10) Minor technical errors may jeopardize the patency of femoral-popliteal bypass grafts.
(11) Intraarterial digital subtraction angiography (DSA) was performed to evaluate graft patency in 45 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting with the use of internal mammary artery (IMA).
(12) The results should be analysed by the Kaplan-Meier estimator, and patency rates should be compared by the log-rank test or Gehan's test.
(13) Arteries less than 1.5 mm in diameter had a patency rate of 84.9%, versus 96.1% for vessels 1.5 mm or larger (p = 0.009).
(14) The overall cumulative graft patency rates were 95 and 87 per cent at 1 and 5 years respectively.
(15) Reapplication of the clamp proximally or distally to the anastomosed site does not change the patency rate.
(16) As part of two Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Trials, we obtained angiographic patency data for internal mammary artery (IMA) and saphenous vein grafts to the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery at 1 year after coronary artery bypass surgery.
(17) In 17 patients with hilar cholangiocarcinoma and intrahepatic bile duct dilatation, the relationships between lobar or segmental atrophy, compensatory hypertrophy, and patency of portal vein branches were evaluated with computed tomography (CT) and angiography.
(18) This study was designed to evaluate the relationship between immediate postoperative arterial blood supply to the graft, arterial patency monitored by angiography, and clinical outcome.
(19) To test the hypothesis that serum total cholesterol influences the clinical outcome following acute myocardial infarction, infarct size, left ventricular ejection fraction, infarct-related vessel patency, and in-hospital cardiac events were determined in 106 consecutive patients given thrombolytic therapy within 5 h of symptom onset.
(20) Endothelial cell seeding may improve the patency of synthetic vascular grafts provided that platelet reactivity of nonendothelialized sites is not increased.