pa·ten·cy 
(pātn-sē)
(pātn-sē)n.
1. The state or quality of being obvious.
2. Medicine The state or quality of being open, expanded, or unblocked.
- triple digits
- triple-double
- triple figure
- triple-header
- tripleheader
- triple jump
- triple measure
- triple play
- triple point
- triple rhyme
- triple sec
- triplet
- tripletail
- triple time
- triple-time
- triple-tongue
- triple witching hour
- triplex
- triplicate
- triplicately
- triplication
- triplicity
- triploblastic
- triploblasty
- triploid