English

Adjective

orificial ‎(not comparable)

1. (medicine) Of or relating to the orifices of the body.
   • 2007, Courtney M. Townsend, Sabiston Textbook of Surgery:

     Orificial atherosclerotic lesions are much less likely to respond to balloon dilation alone because they are essentially composed of aortic plaque, which cannot be effectively cracked and remodeled in a durable manner by a balloon alone.

   • 2013, Jerome A. Winer, The Annual of Psychoanalysis, volume 32:

     The orificial invasion is compensated for not only by clitoral excitation but also by the early elaboration of an identificatory and introjective link with the seductive and intrusive object constituted by the mother(insofar as she also relays the father's desire).

Related terms

• orifice

Derived terms

• periorificial