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EXTERNAL ORIFICE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The orifice through which urine is discharged

Synonyms:

external orifice; urethral orifice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("external orifice" is a kind of...):

opening; orifice; porta (an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity)

Holonyms ("external orifice" is a part of...):

urethra (duct through which urine is discharged in most mammals and which serves as the male genital duct)

vagina (the lower part of the female reproductive tract; a moist canal in female mammals extending from the labia minora to the uterus)

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