Source: Los Angeles Times In this sentence, orifices means:
structural units in an animal specialized for
particular functions
bundles of fibrous tissue in an animal that can
contract
blood vessels that carry blood from the heart to
the body
openings, especially one that opens into a bodily
cavity

2pointsread this excerpt from the beginning of nikolai gogol's "the nose": on the 25th march, 18-, a very strange occurrence tookplace in st petersburg. which option best explains why gogol chose to begin his story in this way? oa. to let readers know that the story that follows is nonfictionb. to explain that information in the story is factual and correctooc. to immediately establish a straightforward and matter-of-facttoneod. to allow readers to better imagine what st. petersburg looks likesubmit