The orifice into the aorta from the lower left chamber of the heart. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Whenever I say the word orifice, I feel like a mix between a 13 yo boy and Beavis and Butthead - Say it with me - She said orifice, huh huh, orifice; yeah, orifice. From Wordnik.com. [Gross Words - Part II] Reference
'I'm not laughing at old Pendy, his orifice is a mere crevice comparatively. From Wordnik.com. [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference
If Mitch McConnell ever stopped short James Inhofes head would disappear into a certain orifice. From Wordnik.com. [Inhofe comes out against Kagan] Reference
The orifice is closed!. From Wordnik.com. [Contest: Come Up with the Lusty Lady’s Final Marquee! « PubliCola] Reference
That orifice is still innocent. From Wordnik.com. [Pretty Woman – The True Story « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more] Reference
To wit, he left his main orifice open. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2010 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
The orifice is called the blastopore. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology or Medicine 1935 - Presentation Speech] Reference
I really do not know what kind of orifice you are pulling it from. From Wordnik.com. [Slashdot: IT] Reference
But here is an odd thing: they never once enter at (what I suppose to be) the "orifice," but generally at the chalaza. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
Blood began oozing from every orifice in his body. From Wordnik.com. [Outbreak Of Fear] Reference
It infiltrates every sealed container and every orifice. From Wordnik.com. [The Sand And The Fury] Reference
Somehow, with creativity pouring out of every orifice, we got through it. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair's A Journey memoir released – live blog] Reference
Thompson has performed more than two dozen natural-orifice gastric revisions. From Wordnik.com. [Open Wide. No, Wider.] Reference
It is manifest, however, that it will first cease to flow from the upper orifice. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
An orifice barely large enough to admit a man showed them beneath the tree a cave. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
The healing process goes on best however when the orifice is in the centre of the eschar. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers] Reference
The valves are brass plates, truly ground to fit the circular brass orifice on which they fall. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction] Reference
The substance is readily absorbed through any orifice; even a drop on the skin can kill within minutes. From Wordnik.com. [The Terrors Of Toxins] Reference
Reine skipped lightly up the steps, and when she reached the top, stood erect near the orifice of the furnace. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The bottom is flat, but the bore is round, or oval, or egg-shaped, with the small end of the orifice downward. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
This drives forward the membranes which retain the water at the orifice, and at the proper moment they break and labor then commences. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
First take hold of the bone of the nose and push the skull into the skin, so that it comes through the orifice of the skin of the body. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
I have sand in every orifice thanks to the storm that came while we were getting our bags. and I saw my first camel outside of the zoo today. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier's Journey: Stephen M. McGowan] Reference
Other potential complications of orifice surgery include infections from internal incisions in otherwise healthy structures, such as the stomach. From Wordnik.com. [Open Wide. No, Wider.] Reference
Her blouse was buttoned up so tightly that her neck, which had grown wrinkled lately, seemed as if it had been squirted out of a small orifice. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Dreams of Reality, 8] Reference
As the branches were sometimes 7 feet or 8 feet long, in some instances the orifice at the end of the jet-pipe was larger than that at the end of the branch. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction] Reference
Ebola's gruesome symptoms -- the massive internal hemorrhaging, which sends blood pouring out of every orifice-have given it more power to frighten than it really deserves. From Wordnik.com. [The Plague That Wasn't] Reference
Some of natural-orifice surgery's biggest cheerleaders are device makers: since 2005 at least 10 new companies have sprung up to manufacture technology for the emerging field. From Wordnik.com. [Open Wide. No, Wider.] Reference
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