Those open indentations are called patulous or atrophic scars, and there are ice pick scars that look like tiny indented slivers on the skin. From Wordnik.com. [Simple Skin Beauty] Reference
The os uteri is soft, patulous, and its edges are torn. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
For indented scars—patulous or atrophic scars and ice-pick scars—there are a few fairly extreme options. From Wordnik.com. [Simple Skin Beauty] Reference
When that foundation is vaporized over time by ultraviolet radiation or aging, the pores can appear more open, a condition known as “patulous pores.”. From Wordnik.com. [Simple Skin Beauty] Reference
Forteune is black, short, and “trapu;” curls of the jettiest lanugo invest all his outward man; bunches of muscle stand out from his frame like the statues of Crotonian Milo; his legs are bandy; his hands and feet are large and patulous, and he wants only. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
A nearer view displays bridgeless, patulous noses, suggesting. From Wordnik.com. [To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative] Reference
A, Gastroscopic view of a gastrojejunostomy opening drawn patulous by the tube mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery] Reference
The gland-ducts are enlarged, patulous or plugged with sebaceous and epithelial matter. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
Development of the collateral circulation and the patulous condition of the distal orifice. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference
It is all a matter of "plumbing" i.e., clearing out the "pipes," and maintaining a patulous airway. From Wordnik.com. [Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery] Reference
When a bone is divided, the vessels remain patulous, and do not contract in the canals in which they are contained. From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 2. Bone] Reference
Weather jolly, but altogether too hot for anything but lying on the grass "under the tegmination of the patulous fage," as the poet observes. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2] Reference
Cones from 5 to 8 cm. long, short-pedunculate, erect or patulous; ovate-conic, symmetrical; apophyses rufous brown, low-pyramidal, the umbo mutic. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
Page 245 as will permit the blood to flow readily from it, while the muscles are relaxed and the lips of the wound are neither patulous nor puckered. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference
The disappearance of one eye; under a large red swelling, combined with a patulous and rubescent nose, detracted to some extent from the dignity of his appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914] Reference
In seven months the abdomen presented the signs of pregnancy, but the cervix was soft and patulous; the sound entered three inches and was followed by some hemorrhage. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Page 215 of the collateral circulation, and the escape of the blood through the patulous orifice of the distal end of the artery; and from the want of proper adhesive inflammation, &c. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference
Two bits of looking-glass represent the eyes, the nose is patulous, as though offended by evil savour; the upper lip is drawn up in disdain, the under overlaps the chin; and a little mirror is inserted into the umbilical region. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2] Reference
This supposes that notwithstanding the pressure of the atmosphere, veins remain patulous after being divided, whereas except, under peculiar circumstances, they immediately close without requiring the intervening agency of bandages applied to the stump. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference
Amid the largest mobilization in U.S. history, the Army, Navy and Selective Service System developed procedures for spotting and excluding homosexual draftees from service: recruits were screened for feminine body characteristics, effeminacy in dress and manner and a patulous expanded rectum. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
Forteune is black, short, and "trapu;" curls of the jettiest lanugo invest all his outward man; bunches of muscle stand out from his frame like the statues of Crotonian Milo; his legs are bandy; his hands and feet are large and patulous, and he wants only a hunch to make an admirable Quasimodo. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1] Reference
Excisions have the special peculiarity and danger of dealing chiefly with cancellated bone, broadened out, open, with numerous patulous canals for large veins, tending on any irritation or inflammation to set up a diffuse suppuration, and to culminate in phlebitis, myelitis, and other pyæmic conditions. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference
"Dollond" to see if the Shining Ones were not within range of sight, -- sweet visions, sweetest in those Sunday walks which carried them by the peaceful common, through the solemn village lying in cataleptic stillness under the shadow of the rod of Moses, to the terminus of their harmless stroll, -- the patulous fage, in the. From Wordnik.com. [Autocrat of the Breakfast Table] Reference
Page 237 when it is remembered that the latter does not close as does the former, and that, as a natural consequence, so soon as the collateral circulation is developed, the blood comes welling up from the patulous orifice in obedience to the physical law which constrains a fluid to seek its own level under all circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference
But the most frequent cause of hemorrhage which manifests itself in this connexion, originates in the patulous condition of the lower orifice of an artery which has been accidentally divided -- a condition which results from the division of the nervous filaments distributed to the vessel, and at the same time invites the escape of its blood. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference
As a rule, not, as the features of the disease -- the sharply circumscribed outline, the reddish or violaceous color, the elevated border, the tendency to central depression and atrophy, the plugged up or patulous sebaceous ducts, the adherent grayish or yellowish scales, together with the region attacked (usually the nose and cheeks) -- are characteristic. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
A slot in the cork so as to permit some air to enter through the tube to supplement the insufficient supply obtainable through the insufficiently patulous glottis, new corks with smaller grooves being substituted as laryngeal breathing becomes easier. From Wordnik.com. [Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery] Reference
Cones from 25 to 45 cm. long, pendent on long stalks, subcylindrical or tapering, often curved; apophyses pale nut-brown, dull or sublustrous, varying much in thickness, prolonged in various degrees, the prolongations patulous, reflexed, recurved or revolute; seeds of the southern typical form with a long wing, the wing diminishing and the nut increasing in relative size northward. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
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