or PATT'E, in heraldry, a cross, small in the centre, and widening to the extremes, which are very broad. See Plate CXXXIV. fig. 13. which is a cross patee, argent, upon a field sable.

PATHELLA, in anatomy. See Anatomy, p. 185.

PATHELLA, the LIMPET, is a genus of insects belonging to the order of vermes testacea. It is an animal of the snail kind; the shell consists of one conical valve, without any spiral. There are 36 species, principally distinguished by peculiarities in their shells.