Ostiole: alternatives and connections

A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface.

The exterior edge or border of a thing, as the border of a leaf, or the outline of a bivalve shell.

The act of opening; an opening; an aperture.

The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening.

A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed or the white water…

A room or rooms behind that part of the exterior; all the rooms immediately below the roof.

A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense.

The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.

The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.

Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone.

Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the spinal cord to the brain and so transfer sensations (centripetal impressions) from the…

The exterior or under surface embraced between the branches of the lower jaw bone, in birds.

Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower…

The exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery.

The exterior line, limit, or border of a country; frontier border.

The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness.

The outer or superficial part of an organ; as, the cortex or gray exterior substance of the brain.

One of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior of many corals.