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inlet

1. a narrow inland opening of the coastline
2. 
a. a passage, valve, or part through which a substance, esp a fluid, enters a device or machine
b. (as modifier): an inlet valve
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inlet

[′in‚let]
(engineering)
An entrance or orifice for the admission of fluid.
(geography)
A short, narrow waterway connecting a bay or lagoon with the sea.
A recess or bay in the shore of a body of water.
A waterway flowing into a larger body of water.
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inlet

An entrance or orifice for the admission of a fluid. The term normally is used with other words as a prefix, such as in inlet air, inlet air temperature, inlet casing, inlet duct, inlet guide van, inlet port, inlet valve, etc. See inlet case.
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The sacral promontory at the dorsal aspect of the pelvic inlet is marked by asterisk, and the three measured conjugates are represented by dashed lines.
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In standard textbooks of veterinary anatomy caecum is described as a blind sac or blind tube on the right side of pelvic inlet. (4-7)
Unlike in horses (Equus caballus) with similar skeletal structure as moose, pelvic inlets of moose show no distinctive sex characteristics on an individual level.
In particular, the fact that the pelvic inlet also widened is evidence of true pelvic growth rather than simple appositional bone formation, Dahners said.
Additional views include the pelvic inlet and outlet views, and Judet views.
The pelvic inlet became broadest in its transverse dimension and the outlet in the anterior-posterior dimension.
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