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Units related to: “opening”
for-, fora- +
(Latin: bore, pierce, make holes; hole, holes; opening, openings,)
hiat-; -hisc-
(Latin: to stand open, to split; opening, aperture, gap; to yawn)
ora-, or-, orat-; os- +
(Latin: oris, mouth, face; opening, entrance; talk, speak, say)
poro-, por-, pori- +
(Greek > Latin > Old French: passageway, used primarily as "a pore, a small orifice"; opening; cavity, tract)
stomato-, stomat-, stom-, -stoma, -stomatous, -stomous, -stome, -stomy, -ostomy, -ostome,
(Greek: mouth, opening; orifice)
anu-, ana-, an-, anal-, ano- +
(Latin: ring, an iron ring for the feet; circle; (so called because of its form); usually the posterior opening of the alimentary canal through which undigested food is voided; the anus)
fenestra-, fenestr-
(Latin: window; in anatomy, a small opening in a bone; to bring to light, to show)
hernio-, herni- +
(Latin: protruded viscus; rupture; in the sense of "protrusion of tissue or part of an organ through an abnormal opening in the surrounding walls")
meato-, meat-, mea-
(Latin: opening or passageway in the body, bodily opening or canal; or to go, to pass; a passage)
pyl-, pyle- +
(Greek: door, gate, entrance; orifice, an aperture or hole opening into a bodily cavity; indicating the portal vein)
Word Entries containing the term: “opening”
female urethral opening
The external opening of the transport tube that leads from the bladder to discharge urine outside the body in a female.

The urethra in a female is shorter than the urethra in the male.

The meatus (opening) of the female urethra is below the clitoris and just above the opening of the vagina.

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