See Also: cardiac orifice(medicine)
orifice(dictionary)
Orifice(health)
orifice(medicine)
orifice(dictionary)
aortic orifice(medicine)
pulmonary orifice(medicine)
pyloric orifice(medicine)
tricuspid orifice(medicine)
ureteric orifice(medicine)

callithrix (iou) and cardiac orifice (medicine)


callithrix (iou)



callithrix noun. . E17.
[mod. Latin from Latin = a kind of Ethiopian monkey, from Greek kallitrikhos beautiful-haired.]
A marmoset. Now only as mod. Latin genus name.

cardiac orifice (medicine)


cardiac orifice


The trumpet-shaped opening of the oesophagus into the stomach.

Synonym: ostium cardiacum, cardiac opening, oesophagogastric orifice.