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hiatus

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hiatus Anatomy
1. a natural opening or aperture; foramen
2. a less common word for vulva

hiatus [hī′ād·əs]
(anatomy)
A space or a passage through an organ.
(geology)
A gap in a rock sequence due to a lack of deposition of a bed or to erosion of beds.


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All due honor, therefore, to the ingenuity with which you have filled the hiatus, and shown the state of affairs between us by a discourse on " surplus value," cribbed from an imperfect report of one of my public lectures, and from the pages of Karl Marx
"I am afraid," he said quietly, "that there is a hiatus in my life somewhere.
But it seems to me that there is a hiatus somewhere.
 
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