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How to pronounce orifice in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms opening, porta
Type of passageway, passage
Has types blastopore, cardia, cervix, cervix uteri, external orifice, fenestra, fontanel, fontanelle, introitus, mouth, naris, os, porta hepatis, pylorus, rima, soft spot, spiracle, stoma, urethral orifice, uterine cervix, anus, vent, aortic orifice


the orifice into the aorta from the lower left chamber of the heart.

Examples of orifice

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The surgery is called NOTES, or natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery.
From the omaha.com
Here in the UK we have politicians who speak and excrete through the same orifice.
From the independent.co.uk
The impact starts in the running back's midsection and explodes out every orifice.
From the dailynews.com
The orifice of the vermiform appendix lies an inch lower, at McBurney's point.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Dry ice is placed inside an insulated container with an orifice at each end.
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They can stick to our pet's coat and find every orifice available to enter.
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Thrill to seeing Doug Aamoth drink four shots at once, one in each orifice.
From the techcrunch.com
I interpreted it as the acceptable version of the insult involving the bodily orifice.
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There are people whose every orifice is occupied by a whirring machine.
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More examples
  • An aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity; "the orifice into the aorta from the lower left chamber of the heart"
  • The O-Force is a superhuman mutant team in the Marvel Comics Universe. Their first appearance was in X-Statix #1 and was created by Peter Millligan and Michael Allred.
  • (Orifices) A body orifice is any opening in the body of an animal.
  • A mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening; as
  • (Orifices) The sense organs of the head, including eyes, ears, nose and mouth. In conditions where the orifices are "closed," there is unconsciousness
  • An opening or hole; an inlet or outlet.
  • Simulation of restrictions (impedance) in a cleaner system.
  • An opening in a plug, fitment, or dispensing cap through which the product is dispensed.
  • An opening through which gas is discharged and whereby the flow of gas is limited and/or controlled.