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 <center>''Were you looking for [[Portal]], the [[Forerunner]] complex?''</center>
 [[Image:Porta.jpg|thumb|200px|A Porta opens for [[Master Chief]].]]
-A '''Porta''' is a sphincter-like orifice embedded into the floors and walls of [[Flood Hive]]s that acts as the [[Flood]] analog to doorways. Portas were sighted in the [[Flood]]-infested ''[[High Charity]]'' and in the ''Halo 3'' multi-player map [[Isolation]]. There are also [[7|seven]] portas on the level [[Cortana (Level)|Cortana]].
+A '''Porta''' is a sphincter-like orifice embedded into the floors and walls of [[Flood Hive]]s that acts as the [[Flood]] analog to doorways. Portas were sighted in the [[Flood]]-infested ''[[High Charity]]'' and in the [[Halo 3|''Halo 3'']] multiplayer map, [[Isolation]]. There are also [[7|seven]] portas on the level, [[Cortana (Level)|Cortana]].
 ==Trivia==
 *Portas may or may not be the doors on ''[[High Charity]]'', covered in [[Flood]] biomass.
-*Portas have at least two [[7]] references in them, one being that Portas are made up of 7 segments, and that there are 7 Portas on the level [[Cortana (level)| Cortana]].
+*Portas have at least two [[7]] references in them, one being that Portas are made up of seven segments, and that there are seven Portas on the level, [[Cortana (level)| Cortana]].
 *The name, "porta", probably comes from the [[Greece|Greek]] word ''porta'' (''πόρτα''), which means door.
-*Porta is also Latin for door
+*Porta is also Latin for "door".
-*On the ''[[Halo 3]]'' multiplayer map [[Isolation (Level)|Isolation]] there is one porta. Sliding down a hole on the top part of the map will lead you to slide down a tube. A porta will open, letting you into the Flood-infested cave.
+*On the ''Halo 3'' multiplayer map, [[Isolation (Level)|Isolation]] there is one porta. Sliding down a hole on the top part of the map will lead you to slide down a tube. A porta will open, letting you into the Flood-infested cave.
-*Portas make an appearance in [[Halo Wars]] on the flood barracks.
+*Portas make an appearance in [[Halo Wars|''Halo Wars'']], on the [[Flood Barracks]].
-*There is a running joke among gamers that the porta's are the gravemind's intestinal openings, due to their sphincter-like appearance.
+*There is a running joke among gamers that the Portas are the Gravemind's intestinal openings, due to their sphincter-like appearance.
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