orifice
    n 1: an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity; "the
         orifice into the aorta from the lower left chamber of the
         heart" [syn: orifice, opening, porta]

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.
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         Etna was bored through the top with a monstrous
         orifice.                                 --Addison.
   [1913 Webster] Oriflamb