ports of entry

Noun

port of entry (plural ports of entry)

1. A harbor, airport, or border crossing where goods or immigrants enter a country.
   • For the Japanese, continued Russian control of Ying-k'ou was not simply a legal matter. Since Ying-k'ou was the major port of entry for Japanese goods into Manchuria, the Russian occupation threatened to undermine Japanese commercial interests.1996, S. C. M. Paine, Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212
2. The location or mechanism by which a foreign entity gains entry into the body or self.
   • As it was becoming apparent in the development of Single port Access that we could begin applying the one port of entry approach to multiple procedures, applying it to cholecystectomies was simply a matter of time.2011, Andrea Tinelli, Laparoscopic Entry, →ISBN