URETHRAL ORIFICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does urethral orifice mean? 

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

1. the orifice through which urine is discharged

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• URETHRAL ORIFICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The orifice through which urine is discharged

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

external orifice; urethral orifice

Hypernyms ("urethral orifice" is a kind of...):

opening; orifice; porta (an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity)

Holonyms ("urethral 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)

 Context examples 

The triangular area in the bladder mucosa that is formed by the two ureteral orifices and the urethral orifice.

(Bladder Trigone, NCI Thesaurus)