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

"One chick was just covered in blood, bleeding from every orifice, and we did everything we could to save it, even giving it an emergency blood transfusion from another owl at the center," Mertz says.

From Salon • Dec. 26, 2021

“Thought the sun shone out of my brother’s every orifice, he did. Well, so did plenty of people, you three included, by the looks of it.”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling