Body Openings

Question 1

Aperture

Answer 1

An opening or orafice

Question 2

Canal (alimentary)

Answer 2

Musculomembranous digestive tube extending from mouth to anus

Question 3

Canal (vaginal)

Answer 3

Canal in the female from vulva to the cervix uteri that receives penis in copulation

Question 4

Cavity

Answer 4

Hollow place or space, within the body or one of its organs

Question 5

Constrictions

Answer 5

Making something narrow; to contract; to close

Question 6

Dilatation

Answer 6

Stretched beyond normal dimensions; widening of something

Question 7

Dilation

Answer 7

expansion, opening

Question 8

Foramen

Answer 8

A natural opening or passage, especially one into or through a bone

Question 9

Hiatus

Answer 9

A gap, cleft or opening

Question 10

introitus

Answer 10

Opening or entrance to a canal or cavity (ex: vagina)

Question 11

Lumen

Answer 11

Opening with hollow tube or organ

Question 12

Meatus

Answer 12

Urinary passage or opening

Question 13

Orifice

Answer 13

Any orifice, such as the anal orifice

Question 14

Os

Answer 14

Mouth opening; os uteri: mouth of uterus or cervix

Question 15

Patent

Answer 15

Adjective, meaning open or nut plugged, as in the “tube of the patient”

Question 16

Perforation

Answer 16

A hole in something, Perforation of the stomach wall by gastric ulcer

Question 17

Stoma

Answer 17

Artificial opening established by colostomy, ileostomy, and tracheostomy

Question 18

Ventricle

Answer 18

Small cavity or chamber, as in brain or heart