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How to pronounce porta in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms opening, orifice
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

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Porta Vigentina was one of the city gates in the Spanish walls of Milan, Italy.
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A few survive from later times, including a first milestone near the porta Appia.
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Porta Volta was built in 1860 to connect the city to the Monumentale cemetery.
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It's not just professional comedians making jokes at the expense of porta potties.
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A porta-potty caught fire at a neighborhood park, resulting in $1,000 damage.
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You won't find endless rows of porta potties or bright, loud carnival rides.
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Porta began to write poems in 1790, although few of them were published before 1810.
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Porta Leoni is the 1st century BC ruin of what was once part of the Roman city gate.
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Porta, wearing a Marine Corps sweatshirt, said, no, it was an IED explosion in Iraq.
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  • Orifice: an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity; "the orifice into the aorta from the lower left chamber of the heart"
  • Porta is a neighborhood in the Nou Barris district of Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain).
  • Christian Jimu00E9nez Bundo (born 2 July 1988 in Barcelona), known as "Porta", is a Spanish rapper. He became popular in 2006 through his huge success in social networks, with his demo No es cuestiu00F3n de edades (2006) and No hay truco ( 2007), which were widely disseminated on the Internet, where he broke the record of downloads...
  • Portas is a municipality in Galicia, Spain in the province of Pontevedra.
  • (portae) gates In a classical Roman encampment there were six gates; the porta praetoria at the front of the camp, the porta decumana at the rear, the two portae principales, one at each end of the via principalis, and the portae quintanae at each end of the via quintana; in many forts some of ...
  • Latin = a gate, also Latin portare = to carry; hence, the portal system carries venous blood from the alimentary tract to the porta hepatis; adjective - portal.
  • Rent has now been established to handle the growing demands in short term event management, residential, maritime, gas and oil industries