Patellar to Patient
Patellar
(Pa*tel"lar) a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the patella, or kneepan.
Patelliform
(Pa*tel"li*form) a. [Patella + form: cf. F. pattelliforme.]
1. Having the form of a patella.
2. (Zoöl.) Resembling a limpet of the genus Patella.
Patellula
(||Pa*tel"lu*la) n.; pl. Patellulæ [NL., dim. of L. patella. See Patella.] (Zoöl.) A cuplike sucker
on the feet of certain insects.
Paten
(Pat"en) n. [LL. patina, patena, fr. L. patina, patena, a pan; cf. L. patere to be open, E. patent,
and Gr. a kind of flat dish: cf. F. patène. Cf. Patina.]
1. A plate. [Obs.]
2. (Eccl.) The place on which the consecrated bread is placed in the Eucharist, or on which the host is
placed during the Mass. It is usually small, and formed as to fit the chalice, or cup, as a cover.
[Written also patin, patine.]
Patena
(||Pat"e*na) n. [LL.] (Eccl.) A paten.
Patena
(||Pa*te"na) n. [Cf. Pg. patena a paten.] A grassy expanse in the hill region of Ceylon.
Patency
(Pa"ten*cy) n. [See Patent.]
1. The condition of being open, enlarged, or spread.
2. The state of being patent or evident.
Patent
(Pat"ent) a. [L. patens, -entis, p. pr. of patere to be open: cf. F. patent. Cf. Fathom.]
1. (Oftener pronounced pat"ent in this sense) Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.
He had received instructions, both patent and secret.
Motley. 2. Open to public perusal; — said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent.
See Letters patent, under 3d Letter.
3. 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.
Madder . . . in King Charles the First's time, was made a patent commodity.
Mortimer. 4. (Bot.) Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf.
Patent leather, a varnished or lacquered leather, used for boots and shoes, and in carriage and harness
work. — Patent office, a government bureau for the examination of inventions and the granting of
patents. — Patent right. (a) The exclusive right to an invention, and the control of its manufacture.
(b) (Law) The right, granted by the sovereign, of exclusive control of some business of manufacture,
or of the sale of certain articles, or of certain offices or prerogatives. — Patent rolls, the registers, or
records, of patents.
Patent
(Pat"ent), n. [Cf. F. patente. See Patent, a.]
