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cloaca

[ UK /klˈə‍ʊkɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. (zoology) the cavity (in birds, reptiles, amphibians, most fish, and monotremes but not mammals) at the end of the digestive tract into which the intestinal, genital, and urinary tracts open
  2. a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water

How To Use cloaca In A Sentence

  • Cloacal exstrophy variants: Can blighted conjoined twinning play a role? Publications of the Urology Division
  • Salamanders were measured from the tip of the snout to the anterior end of the cloaca.
  • The part of the cloaca from the upper wall of which it forms belongs to the proctodaeum, the ectodermic invagination of the rectum (Chapter 2.27); hence its epithelial covering can develop the same horny growths as the corneous layer of the epidermis. The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
  • From this point the hindgut, _hg_, extends cephalad until it lies laterad to the middle region of the duodenum, then bends through 180° and extends, in an almost straight line, to the cloaca, _cl_, lying in the region of the posterior appendage, _pa_. Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator
  • Could you please distinguish between the pygostyle and the cloaca? “I’m Canadian” | clusterflock
  • The hens become broody for a long period after laying a clunch of 10-12 eggs. (farmers control the broodiness of native hens by soaking them in cold water, removing the laid eggs from their nests, or even placing some slat or powdered pepper on their cloaca and also by providing better feeds). Chapter 15
  • We were shocked to note that a man who is normally firmly embedded within the cloacal vent of whichever Labour MP is speaking should appear to have spontaneously grown a pair . BBC's Robinson in Medical Miracle Marvel
  • Instead, males deposit spermatophores on the substrate and females pick up these spermatophores with their cloaca later.
  • Turtles under the ice breathe through their skin and through an allpurpose opening called the cloaca. The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States
  • Little is known of their reproductive biology, but the lack of both spermatheca in females, and cloacal glands in males, suggests external fertilization.
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