key-hole

According to the Daily Telegraph, Collingwood has a chronic knee complaint which requires key-hole surgery.

Paul Collingwood faces knee surgery to save England career 2011

It is also a very central component of many scientific and medical devices, for example astronomical telescopes and instruments used for "key-hole" surgery.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009 - Presentation Speech 2009

Upon examining it I discovered that one of the raisin-stems which I had been flipping about the room during the discourse of the Angel of the Odd had flown through the fractured crystal, and lodging, singularly enough, in the key-hole, with an end projecting outward, had thus arrested the revolution of the minute-hand.

Archive 2008-12-01 2008

There's certainly a sense of liberation at the end, though accompanied by images of wounding, the "footprint gaping open in the snow" and the faintly terrifying idea of a "key-hole to the heart."

Poem of the week: A Mind of Winter by Martha Kapos 2010

The technology we have now on a microscopic level, could all be done via key-hole surgery, and even with advanced digital mapping of the body and robotics.

James Cameron’s Future Sci-Fi Project Is a Remake of FANTASTIC VOYAGE – Collider.com 2009

Jean Valjean saw his candle through the key-hole, and foiled the spy by keeping silent.

Les Miserables 2008

Walking on tiptoe to the door, he shut it, and put his ear to the key-hole, till he no longer heard any footstep.

Camilla 2008

A servant maid in Aristaenetus spied her master and mistress through the key-hole [4995] merrily disposed; upon the sight she fell in love with her master.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

And luck-bringing Hermes, the son of Zeus, passed edgeways through the key-hole of the hall like the autumn breeze, even as mist: straight through the cave he went and came to the rich inner chamber, walking softly, and making no noise as one might upon the floor.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

She was exhausted from all the teasing, but she gathered herself together, as best a lost soul can and slipped thru the key-hole anyhow to see who was on the other side...

Perls of Wisdom Gordie 2007