About The Word Orifice
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Orifice
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What's The Definition Of Orifice?
[n] an aperture or hole opening into a bodily cavity; "the orifice into the aorta from the lower left chamber of the heart"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Orifice: opening | porta Related Terms | Find terms related to Orifice: aperture | broaching | cavity | chasm | check | clearing | cleft | crack | disclosure | fenestra | fistula | fontanel | foramen | gap | gape | gat | gulf | hiatus | hole | hollow | inlet | interval | lacuna | laying open | leak | opening | opening up | outlet | passageway | pore | slot | space | split | stoma | throwing open | uncorking | unstopping | vent | yawn See Also | anus | aortic orifice | arse | arsehole | asshole | blastopore | cardia | cervix | cervix uteri | external orifice | fenestra | fontanel | fontanelle | introitus | mouth | naris | os | passage | passageway | porta hepatis | pylorus | rima | soft spot | spiracle | stoma | urethral orifice | uterine cervix | vent Orifice In Webster's Dictionary \Or"i*fice\, n. [F., from L. orificium; os, oris, a
mouth + facere to make. See {Oral}, and {Fact}.]
A mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening;
as, the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound.
--Shak.
Etna was bored through the top with a monstrous
orifice. --Addison.
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