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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Holes, hollows and dips
anti-crack
aperture
blistered
chink
cranny
cratering
gauge
hollow
interstice
leak
leaky
micropore
microporosity
microporous
piercing
pinprick
shaft
spyhole
thumbhole
void

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Substances & structures in the body

Examples of orifice

orifice
In seven percent of the cases, the sinus nodal artery took origin from a separate orifice within the same sinus as a major coronary artery.
The solution obtained is such as to violate this latter assumption sufficiently far downstream from the pipe orifice, however small the crossflow.
The repair consisted of double patch closure of the septal defect, reconstruction of two atrioventricular orifices, and relief of pulmonary stenosis at all levels.
One patient with a preoperative diagnosis of atrioventricular septal defect with two atrioventricular orifices was found to have a common atrioventricular orifice.
In four of our patients, the double orifice was found to represent an abnormality in the left valve of an atrioventricular septal defect.
The malaligned atrial septum was widely excised to reveal a small left atrium receiving the pulmonary venous orifices and a tiny atrial appendage.
On the first postoperative day, the stent in the orifice of the right pulmonary vein migrated to the descending aorta.
In our experience, it is the patient with unequal orifices in whom the preoperative (and in one case operative) diagnosis is difficult to make.
Central orifice distinct and surrounded by a dull crimson area.
Eventually the filament loses its uniformity and tapers down at its connections to the drop and orifice, as shown in frame (c).
The superior margin of the orifice was bounded by a muscular ridge separating it from the subaortic ventricular septal defect.
There was a prominent muscular shelf below the aortic orifice, but without any significant restriction of the outlet.
Evaluation of the anatomy of congenitally malformed aortic valves by orifice-view aortography.
Neonatal heart transplantation may, therefore, prove to be the only option for infants with unguarded tricuspid orifice.
Only one orifice was notably stenotic at its origin.
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