orifice
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7.5
- noun
- /ˈɔrɪfɪs/
- Specialized
:
orificio
- The doctor explained that the orifice in the patient's throat allowed for easier breathing during the procedure.
- duct orifice
- body orifices
- natural orifices
And that means breathe through whatever orifice works for you.
- And that means breathe through whatever orifice works for you.
- It actually comes from the Roman God of expanding vaginal orifices, Placentia.
- Birds have a common orifice for for pooping and peeing and basically having sex.
- And no sooner than he said that, about two months later, I was lying in bed bleeding out of every orifice, out of my body.
- I have ever waft to my own, my own orifice like that.
- The thickness of it, the orifice.
- A non flying objects close a non flying orifice, a non flying oblong no object.
- My knees like like an orifice, like some part of your area, like body that can like, hold liquid.
Examples
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The switch uses an orifice rather than a sleeve design to permit a low-pressure drop.
Academic text (1995) -
Water was rationed to each user by calibrated orifices scaled to a user's annual fee.
Academic text (2003) -
And that means breathe through whatever orifice works for you.
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Look, the size of the cardiac orifice, where the food...
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And this is a very tricky small orifice to design, install and maintain.
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The water is forced through a precision orifice 0.013 inches in diameter.
Academic text (2004) -
The eustachian tube orifice, the oval window, and the round window were also filled with granulation tissue.
Academic text (2007) -
Bonsai-like trees grow out of every orifice: eye sockets, nostrils, ears, and mouths.
Fiction book (1992) -
The breast was prepared and draped, and we identified the breast-duct orifices with magnifying loupes.
Academic text (1999) -
During the examination, the surgeon identified an orifice that led into the sinus cavity.
Synonyms
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1.0
An opening in something, often made by people or nature
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1.0
A space that lets people move through, for example a door
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3.1
The place where a river enters the sea or a lake
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2.8
An opening that lets water or gas flow out
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9.9
An opening in an organ that lets blood or fluid move in and out
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7.0
An opening in a surface or structure, like a hole in a wall
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4.1
An opening where air or liquid enters a machine such as an engine
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9.6
An opening in a bone that lets a nerve or blood vessel pass through
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9.9
A mouthlike opening in a living body that lets water or food pass
A large opening in a sponge where water flows out
A hole that forms when wood decays or people dig the ground
Compounds
- Specialized
The opening between the left lower chamber of the heart and the main artery that blood passes through
- Specialized
An opening at the end of the tube from the bladder where urine comes out
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word orifice comes from Latin parts os 'mouth' and facere 'to make'. So an orifice is like a 'made mouth', an opening or hole such as the mouth of a pipe or a passage in the body.