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porta
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun porta has 1 sense
- porta(n = noun.body) opening, orifice - an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity; "the orifice into the aorta from the lower left chamber of the heart" has particulars: vent, blastopore, aortic orifice, stoma, porta hepatis, spiracle, mouth, os, cervix, cervix uteri, uterine cervix, fenestra, cardia, introitus, external orifice, urethral orifice, pylorus, anus, fontanel, fontanelle, soft spot, naris, rima
is a kind of passage, passageway
CIDE DICTIONARY
porta, n. [L., a gate. See Port a hole.].
The part of the liver or other organ where its vessels and nerves enter; the hilus. B. G. Wilder. [1913 Webster]
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