(a.) Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter.
(a.) Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines.
(a.) Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf.
(a.) A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party.
(a.) A writing securing to an invention.
(a.) A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.
(a.) The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent.
(v. t.) To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.
Example Sentences:
(1) We found that, compared to one- and two-dose infants, those treated with three doses of Exosurf were more premature, smaller, required a longer ventilator course, and had more frequent complications, including patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), intraventricular hemorrhage, nosocomial pneumonia, and apnea.
(2) "We presently are involved in a number of intellectual property lawsuits, and as we face increasing competition and gain an increasingly high profile, we expect the number of patent and other intellectual property claims against us to grow," the company said.
(3) Most notably, retroperitoneal lymph nodes in rabbits remained dark blue up to 28 days after hindlimb endolymphatic instillation of liposomal patent blue.
(4) Central assessment of the angiograms revealed a patent infarct-related artery in 78 patients (patency rate 66%, 95% confidence limits 57 to 74%).
(5) These observations suggest that the function of BMG is to evoke mesenchymal cell differentiation into prechondroblasts during the latent or migratory morphogenetic phase while the effect of the culture medium is to provide the bionutritional requirements for synthesis of hyaline cartilage matrix by chondrocytes during the patent phase of development.
(6) Ligation of the left renal vein on the medial side of the adrenolumbar tributary maintained a patent left renal vein in all cases with 60% of left kidney biopsies showing no histological evidence of changes to glomeruli or tubules, and the remainder showing early acute tubular necrosis.
(7) Rapid diagnosis and treatment of patent ductus arteriosus and appropriate fluid intake are also essential for a favourable outcome in newborn infants with severe RDS treated with surfactant.
(8) Seven infants (group 1) received indomethacin to treat a clinically significant patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), and eight infants (group 2) received indomethacin prophylactically at 24 hours of age because of their high risk for PDA.
(9) However, one or more grafts were patent in 52 (90 per cent) of these 58 patients.
(10) A very low parasitaemia, (highest score 2), which was patent for only 10 days, was recorded.
(11) At operation a patent left umbilical artery was partially obstructing the distal left ureter.
(12) On Day 3, dogs with patent grafts underwent wound debridement, irrigation, and closure, and the treatment to which they had been randomized was carried out.
(13) The patient recovered well and postoperative angiography revealed all bypass grafts patent.
(14) (They also delivered an encouraging decision on patent trolls just this week.)
(15) The most commonly associated lesions were ventricular septal defect (50%), hypoplastic aortic arch (45%), patent ductus arteriosus (41%), transposition of great arteries (22.7%) and other intracardiac lesions comprised 30%.
(16) A case of double intussusception through a patent vitello-intestinal duct is reported.
(17) It was found that when the mice were infected with up to 5943 parasites within 6 days of treating a previous infection, no patent infection was recorded.
(18) In order to incorporate concordant patents, fuzzy subsets are employed, with the number of attempts required to achieve transitive closure being the values for comparison.
(19) A couple of years later, he patented a method of producing a water-repellent textile.
(20) Of the 23 sequential bypasses, only 1 anastomosis out of 46 was not patent for a success rate of 97.3%.
Unobstructed
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) When the unmagnified peripheral visual field was unobstructed during adaptation, VOR gain increases were significantly less than when the unmagnified peripheral visual field was occluded, and were similar to those observed during adaptation without the wearing of telescopic spectacles at all.
(2) If there is justice for Mark some of this sadness will end.” The family’s solicitor, Cyrilia Davies Knight, from Birnberg Peirce solicitors, said: “There are serious questions about whether this highly trained police officer, who shot Mark in broad daylight from an unobstructed view a few metres away from him, made a mistake that was reasonable and lawful.” She added: “A death of this kind is the cause of uniquely intense public concern as demonstrated by the disturbances after Mark’s death.
(3) When Pdi was increased to 128, 191, 287 and 421% of the value measured during unobstructed breathing, costal and crural fc rose significantly in all animals because of an increase in the power of high-frequency components and a decline in the power of low-frequency components.
(4) Unobstructed re-intergration with further reproduction of animals which had received PGF2 alpha treatment is established with hard evidence on the basis of clinical examination of oestrus, ovulation, conception, and farrowing rates as well as by histological examination of the endometrium.
(5) Before BCG perfusion unobstructed flow from the renal pelvis to the bladder was confirmed and pyelovenous or pyelolymphatic back flow was excluded under fluoroscopy.
(6) VIPs, VVIPs or even VVVIPs – almost all government officials – can receive perks ranging from free housing in listed villas with staff paid by the government, bodyguards who act as personal assistants, free flights, unobstructed passage through airports or train stations as well as a significant degree of de facto legal impunity.
(7) Three infants who underwent operation for total anomalous pulmonary venous connection had unobstructed drainage of all the pulmonary veins to both the coronary sinus and left vertical vein.
(8) Similar changes were seen with the airway unobstructed during NITP.
(9) This report details technical modifications of the procedure to ensure unobstructed blood flow from the pulmonary artery to the aorta and to maintain the integrity of the pulmonary and aortic valves.
(10) To determine whether in a mouse model of ascending, unobstructed urinary tract infection an inoculum volume could be found that induces vesicoureteral reflux without causing renal injury, the occurrence of vesicoureteral reflux (identified by inspection, kidney culture, and histopathologic examination) was compared with the occurrence of renal trauma (identified by histopathologic examination and cultures of blood and spleen) in female Swiss Webster mice after transurethral inoculation with 50, 75, 100 or 150 microliters of a bacterial suspension containing India ink.
(11) The former showed airway obstruction associated with a deformed hypoplastic mandible; the latter had an unobstructed airway despite a small mandible because of associated hypoplasia of the maxilla and tongue.
(12) We have induced chronic infection of the unobstructed urinary tract in the rat by implanting a small polyurethane sponge into the dome of the bladder, 14 days before bacterial challenge.
(13) Studies were conducted in both awake and anesthetized rabbits whose drainage ducts were either unobstructed or plugged, and the loss of drug was monitored directly from the precorneal area or as appearance in the aqueous humor.
(14) The advantages of this method are discussed and it is recommended as a superior alternative to loop colostomy or caecostomy for defunctioning the unobstructed distal bowel.
(15) In terms of the occlusion (articulation) concept, the biomechanical demands shold be determined on the basis of unobstructed sliding movements; a completely balanced occlusion seems to be the most advantageous in spite of certain disadvantages.
(16) No patient was rendered unobstructed but 2 patients (who declined prostatectomy) noted an improvement in their obstructive symptoms at both 3 and 6 months.
(17) Hearing adults produced signed and spoken monologues under conditions of quiet or 80 dB SPL of noise and with their vision unobstructed or obstructed.
(18) The major surgical challenges are to establish unobstructed urinary drainage and restore vascular continuity.
(19) A headlamp videocamera allows unobstructive recording of the resident's technical performance and provides subsequent visual feedback for self-improvement when compared to reference instructional videotapes.
(20) By challenging the urinary tract collecting structures with an augmented urine flow, dilated, unobstructed systems can be differentiated from systems with significant mechanical obstruction.