Found 2 items, similar to Orifice.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: orifice
orifice
n : an aperture or hole opening into a bodily cavity;
“the
orifice into the aorta from the lower left chamber of the
heart” [syn:
opening,
porta]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Orifice
Orifice
\Or"i*fice\, n. [F., from L. orificium; os, oris, a
mouth + facere to make. See
Oral, and
Fact.]
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.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Etna was bored through the top with a monstrous
orifice. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]