orifice

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Second, smaller animals are expected to pee in droplets because their orifice is too tiny to emit anything thicker.

From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2024

Gases that build up after death can be expelled through any orifice in the body, including the mouth, and may carry infectious virus, the researchers said.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2022

They live in every habitat on every continent and in every orifice, organ and body part of their hosts.

From Scientific American • May 18, 2022

Where it landed was in a storm drain, swallowed by the dark orifice at the northwest corner of 13th Street and New York Avenue NW.

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2017

So it is zero outside, Quentin thought; soon he will raise the window and do deep-breathing in it, clench-fisted and naked to the waist, in the warm and rosy orifice above the iron quad.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner