orifice : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: orifice	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for orifice
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
orifice n an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity; "the orifice into the aorta from the lower left chamber of the heart" Synonym(s): orifice, opening, porta
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Orifice \Or"ifice\, 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. Etna was bored through the top with a monstrous orifice. --Addison.