orifice
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Correctional officers failed to use on Lopez a device known as the Body Orifice Security Scanner, or “BOSS chair,” which is designed to quickly detect metallic contraband within body cavities of inmates.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2022
These are programs with bizarre names like Back Orifice or Net Bus that can be hidden in an e-mail attachment--say, one of those animated birthday cards people seem to like e-mailing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Orifice of coxal gland probably situated at base of coxa of 5th appendage; sternal plate of prosema minute or absent; no prosternal element underlying the mouth.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
Orifice, or Foramen, an opening through the coats at the organic apex of the ovule.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
Orifice small, slightly protuberant; capitulum without horny scuta; generally with three small flattened projections along the carinal margin.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
Vocabulary lists containing orifice
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As I Lay Dying
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