Sentence examples for patency from inspiring English sources

Survival often depends on the presence of associated compensatory abnormalities, such as continued patency of the ductus arteriosus or the presence of a septal defect, which may allow either decompression of a chamber under elevated pressure or beneficial compensatory intracardiac shunting either from right to left or from left to right.

Fertility, as we have seen, is influenced by many factors but the key ones are egg and sperm quality, tubal patency and the frequency of sexual intercourse.

If he has a middle ear infection, then it can affect the patency of these organs, and not allow air to pass in or out of the middle ear.

Consequently, aggressive endovascular and surgical techniques may be required to restore vessel patency and to preserve neurological function".