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==Definition==

*''according to Hottinger (2006):''

'''ORIFICE''' - any unspecified opening in the test such as apertures or the mouths of a canal system. The term is to be restricted to a functional meaning, i.e. to those openings where protoplasm extrudes from the shell.


==See also==
* [[aperture]]
* [[canal systems]]
* [[protoplasm]]
* [[test]]

  
==References==

Hottinger (2006), [http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/CG2006_M02/index.html Illustrated glossary of terms used in foraminiferal research]. [http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/uk-index.html Carnets de Géologie], [http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/CG2006_M02/index.html Memoir 2], ISSN 1634-0744.

                  

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