Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity;
- Example: "the orifice into the aorta from the lower left chamber of the heart"
[syn: orifice, opening, porta]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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] OriflambMoby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "orifice": aperture, broaching, cavity, chasm, check, clearing, cleft, crack, disclosure, fenestra, fistula, fontanel, foramen, gap, gape, gat, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, inlet, interval, lacuna, laying open, leak, opening, opening up, outlet, passageway, pore, slot, space, split, stoma, throwing open, uncorking, unstopping, vent, yawn

