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Noun(1) an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity(2) an aperture or hole opening into a bodily cavity(3) opening

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(1) Under the reconstruction favoured here, the right orifice is the mouth and the left the anus, implying a U-shaped gut.(2) Jordan's hands clasped over the inhaler and pressed the orifice of it and faced it to her mouth.(3) On the left there was an obstructing lesion noted at the orifice of the left upper lobe bronchus.(4) The anal canal ends at the anus, which is the external orifice , or opening, of the digestive tract.(5) Anatomists have applied the term cardia to that part of the stomach that lies around the orifice of the tubular esophagus.(6) We even applied sunscreen to the nostrils, an orifice often overlooked by the uninitiated.(7) The major orifice opposite the aulacophore is the anus, with the mouth somewhere near the ambulacrum.(8) During excretion, the urethral orifice below the bladder is opened and the urine passes through the urethra.(9) Epithelia are tissues lining the outer surface of the body, or the inner surface of organs which have a direct connection to one of the body's orifices .(10) The ureters, their resection margins, and internal orifices were free from tumor.(11) The exophytic mass bulged from the roof of the left atrium between the atrial septum and the orifices of the pulmonary veins.(12) In addition, no diverticular orifices were identified.(13) Other landmarks used to guide resection are the right and left ureteral orifices and the bladder neck.(14) The ureteral orifices are located at the proximal borders of the trigone area.(15) Laparoscopy enables hernial orifices to be observed and tension-free mesh repair to be carried out effectively.(16) Teeth are exempted from the requirement, as are incisions in or around natural body orifices .