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orifice |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Orifice \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: orifice n : an aperture or hole opening into a bodily cavity; "the orifice into the aorta from the lower left chamber of the heart" [syn: {opening}]
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