This may be passed again and again to enlarge the passages sufficiently, and then the passage may be kept open by wearing a long, dumb-bell bougie, a thick piece of carbolized catgut, or a spring dilator.
Sometimes the mouth is kept open, permitting the tumefied tongue to protrude.
They would continue to need defending even if our ships ceased to draw supplies from it, because the communications of the garrison must be kept open.
Can these be kept open except by the action of our navy?
The bowels should be kept open by the use of appropriate diet or by the use of small regular doses of Glauber's salt.
The orifice must be kept open, and should it be disposed to heal we must again introduce some of the agents above described.
The mouth is to be kept open by a gag of wood or iron and the head slightly raised and extended.
They may be very gently pressed with the fingers at first to remove the clots--inspissated pus--but after this the orifice is simply to be kept open by the introduction of a clean probe, should it be disposed to heal too soon.
Goods wagons were taken over by ferry-boats which, also, acted as ice-breakers early and late in the winter season, so long as the passage could be kept open.
The bowels should be kept open, and under-feeding rather than over-feeding is indicated.
The bowels should be kept open, the mouth should be kept clean, and the side of the face should be protected by a layer of cotton held in place by bandages.
The bowels should be kept open, the diet should be soft.
Caustic should next be applied to every part of the wound, which is then to be covered with a poultice, and suffered to heal by granulation, or be kept open, and made to suppurate, by irritating ointments.
When they are applied, the body ought at the same time to be kept open, and cold is carefully to be avoided.
The bowels should bekept open at least once a day, and castor oil or salts usually can be given.
The bowels must be kept open by laxatives, Sodium Phosphate or Sodium Sulphate, (Glauber's) salt.
The bowels should be kept open, and the kidneys should rest.
A daily bath of saleratus water is good and the bowels should be kept open.
The covering on the bed should be light, only just what is necessary to keep one comfortable, and the windows should be kept open.
The bowels must be kept open by suitable diet as it is most important to avoid Constipation (see).
It would seem that the sutures were passed through the parietes of the oesophagus only, and that the external wound was kept open by being filled with tow.
Purgatives--blisters to the nape of the neck, and to be kept open.
Schools should be kept open at least ten full months during the year; in other words, the entire year, with the usual quarterly or semi-annual vacations.
Our schools should be kept open a sufficient length of time during the year to make their influence strongly and most favorably felt.
Just so the railroad arm cannot be severed--the line must be kept open.
The railroader does not like to think of wrecks, but his methods for removing them must be prompt and thorough: the line must be kept open.
The assistant despatcher, wishing to know how long he could afford to hold his heavy traffic (remember that the line must always be kept open), wired the nearest station for additional details.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kept open" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
