The term has a simple, non-technical usage and appears in daily descriptions of objects and systems.

Everyday Usage

Orifice can describe openings in common items like bottles, pipes, or containers.

Common Objects

In specific contexts, 'orifice' can indicate a designed feature for a particular function.

Precise Context

In medical contexts, orifice often refers to natural openings on the human or animal bodies.

Body References

Using 'orifice' in medical contexts can sound clinical and detached, typically used by healthcare professionals.

Clinical Tone

Be mindful that discussing bodily orifices can be personal or sensitive in some cultures.

Sensitive Language

Orifice is used in engineering to discuss specific parts, especially in fluid dynamics and aerodynamics.

Technical Contexts

In technical fields, the dimensions of an orifice can be crucial for the system's performance.

Precision Matters

 want to think about what flies and maggots do to a body much less study it but dr. marks knows these scavengers are as regular as clockwork the first flies will arrive within half an hour of death and invade the body what they look for are the orifices the

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 who has a razor blade and, in a non-sterilized way, they remove the exterior parts of a woman's genitalia. And sometimes, in more extreme cases but not very rare cases, they sew the orifice up so the girl can just urinate or menstruate.

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 but there are only five four species of echidnas and the duck-billed platypus. The name monotreme means one hole referring to the single orifice they use for reproduction, excretion, and egg-laying. Like birds,

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 staff sign orifice orders closely related and larger

Orifice

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