2. Verb. (third-person singular of patch) ¹
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Definition of Patches
1. patch [v] - See also: patch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patches
Literary usage of Patches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"The present communication extends this finding and presents additional observations
on the transport of particles from Peyer's patches to adjacent villi and ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1848)
"The number of the patches varies as much as from sixteen to thirty-six. ...
Bifurcations of this colouring extend even over the normal patches. ..."
3. Field Book of Birds of the Southwestern United States by Roger Tory Peterson, Gilbert Haven Trafton, Luther E. Wyman, Elizabeth F. Burnell (1916)
"Effect on weed-patches. Studies that have been made of patches of weeds after
... In April, Dr. Judd examined weed-patches on a farm in Maryland to see to ..."
4. Text-book of normal histology by George Arthur Piersol (1893)
"These patches vary in size and number, and are usually limited to the lower
two-thirds of the small intestine, reaching their highest development in the ..."
5. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1908)
"In June, 1906, she again came under observation with patches in the situations
exactly as before. All of these patches were now dry, red, and covered with ..."
6. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1886)
"patches of atheroma in all the large arteries at the base, particularly those of
the middle cerebral and basilar. There was no hemorrhage, and no evidence ..."
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