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noun
an opening or aperture, as of a tube or pipe; a mouthlike opening or hole; mouth; vent.
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Orifices
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| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
orifice
1540s, from M.Fr. orifice "the opening of a wound" (14c.), from L. orificium "an opening," lit. "mouth-making," from os (gen. oris) "mouth" + facere "make" (see factitious).
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
orifice or·i·fice (ôr'ə-fĭs)
n.
An opening, especially to a cavity or passage of the body; a mouth or vent.
or'i·fi'cial (-fĭsh'əl) adj.
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