EXTERNAL ORIFICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does external orifice mean? 

• EXTERNAL ORIFICE (noun)
  The noun EXTERNAL ORIFICE has 1 sense:

1. the orifice through which urine is discharged

  Familiarity information: EXTERNAL ORIFICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXTERNAL ORIFICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The orifice through which urine is discharged

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

external orifice; urethral orifice

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)