Example: "Patent ductus arteriosus"
Example: "The effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"
Example: "Should i patent this invention?"
Example: "His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him"
Open, unobstructed, expanded.
Example: "That is a patent ductus arteriosus."
Explicit and obvious.
Example: "Those claims are patent nonsense."
(of flour) that is fine, and consists mostly of the inner part of the endosperm.
Open; unconcealed; conspicuous.
Open to public perusal; said of a document conferring some right or privilege.
Example: "Letters patent"
Protected by a legal patent.
Example: "A patent right; patent medicines"