Definition of orifice

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Orifice (n.) 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..

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Sourt :: Spurt (v. t.) To throw out, as a liquid, in a stream or jet; to drive or force out with violence, as a liquid from a pipe or small orifice; as, to spurt water from the mouth..
Squirt :: Squirt (v. t.) To drive or eject in a stream out of a narrow pipe or orifice; as, to squirt water..
Stal :: Staktometer (n.) A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette..
Hydrometrograph :: Hydrometrograph (n.) An instrument for determining and recording the quantity of water discharged from a pipe, orifice, etc., in a given time..
Regurgitation :: Regurgitation (n.) The act of flowing or pouring back by the orifice of entranc.
Cardia :: Cardia (n.) The anterior or cardiac orifice of the stomach, where the esophagus enters it..
Tent :: Tent (n.) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges..
Vulva :: Vulva (n.) The orifice of the oviduct of an insect or other invertebrate.
Prolapse :: Prolapse (n.) The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum..
Vagina :: Vagina (n.) Specifically, the canal which leads from the uterus to the external orifice if the genital canal, or to the cloaca..
Spiracle :: Spiracle (n.) A tubular orifice communicating with the gill cavity of certain ganoid and all elasmobranch fishes. It is the modified first gill cleft.
Ovule :: Ovule (n.) The rudiment of a seed. It grows from a placenta, and consists of a soft nucleus within two delicate coatings. The attached base of the ovule is the hilum, the coatings are united with the nucleus at the chalaza, and their minute orifice is the foramen..
Throat :: Throat (n.) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces..
Sourt :: Sourt (n.) A sudden or violent ejection or gushing of a liquid, as of water from a tube, orifice, or other confined place, or of blood from a wound; a jet; a spirt..
Whistle :: Whistle (v. i.) To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a similar sound, or series of notes, from the mouth or beak, as birds..
Bung :: Bung (n.) The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
Flatter :: Flatter (n.) A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc..
Foramen :: Foramen (n.) A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra..
Hiss :: Hiss (n.) The noise made by steam escaping through a narrow orifice, or by water falling on a hot stove..
Protrude :: Protrude (v. t.) To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth..
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