Look up orifice in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An orifice is any opening, mouth, hole or vent, as in a pipe, a plate, or a body Body orifice, any opening...
An orifice plate is a device used for measuring flow rate, for reducing pressure or for restricting flow (in the latter two cases it is often called a...
A body orifice is any opening in the body of an animal. In a typical mammalian body such as the human body, the external body orifices are: The nostrils...
mee-AY-təs; pl.: meatus or meatuses), also known as the external urethral orifice, is the opening where urine exits the male and female urethra. It is where...
: anuses or ani; from Latin, 'ring' or 'circle') is the external body orifice at the exit end of the digestive tract (bowel), i.e. the opposite end from...
Back Orifice (often shortened to BO) is a computer program designed for remote system administration. It enables a user to control a computer running...
section in a de Laval nozzle or through an orifice plate. The choked velocity is observed upstream of an orifice or nozzle. The upstream volumetric flow...
bladder at an angle on its outer back surface at the slit-like ureteric orifices. This location is also called the vesicoureteric junction. In the contracted...
The aortic orifice (aortic opening) is a circular opening, in front and to the right of the left atrioventricular orifice, from which it is separated by...
A Restrictive Flow Orifice (RFO) is a type of orifice plate. They are used to limit the potential danger, damage, or wastage of an uncontrolled flow from...
left atrium and left ventricle, then drains into the right atrium at the orifice of the coronary sinus (which is usually guarded by the valve of coronary...
Back Orifice 2000 (often shortened to BO2k) is a computer program designed for remote system administration. It enables a user to control a computer running...
girls have a vagina", which causes children to think that girls have one orifice in the pelvic area. Author Hilda Hutcherson stated, "Because many [women]...
pyloric canal ends as the pyloric orifice, which marks the junction between the stomach and the duodenum. The orifice is surrounded by a sphincter, a band...
uterine cavity via the internal orifice of the uterus (or internal os) and with the vagina via the external orifice of the uterus (ostium of uterus or...
crossover act. The group consisted of four artists individually known as Orifice Vulgatron (Pavan Mukhi, vocals), Metropolis Graham (Ebow Enyan Graham,...
For example, an orifice plate produces a pressure drop that is a function of the square of the volume rate of flow through the orifice. A vortex meter...
The internal urethral orifice is the opening of the urinary bladder into the urethra. It is placed at the apex of the trigonum vesicae, in the most dependent...
clitoris and the vagina, extending from the internal to the external urethral orifice. The meatus is located below the clitoris. It is placed behind the symphysis...
The right atrioventricular orifice (right atrioventricular opening) is the large oval aperture of communication between the right atrium and ventricle...
left atrioventricular orifice (left atrioventricular opening or mitral orifice) is placed below and to the left of the aortic orifice. It is a little smaller...
Windows 98. Back Orifice 2000 (often shortened to BO2k) is a computer program that is similar in function to Back Orifice. Back Orifice 2000 debuted on...
Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) is a surgical technique whereby "scarless" abdominal operations can be performed with an endoscope...
vagina, Bartholin's glands, and Skene's glands. The external urethral orifice is placed about 25–30 millimetres (1–1.2 in) behind the clitoris and immediately...
cloacae (/kloʊˈeɪsi/ kloh-AY-see or /kloʊˈeɪki/ kloh-AY-kee), is the rear orifice that serves as the only opening for the digestive, reproductive, and urinary...
its maximum, such as in the case of a stream issuing out of a nozzle (orifice). (Evangelista Torricelli, 1643). It is a place where the cross section...
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