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cloaca

[kloh-ay-kuh] / kloʊˈeɪ kə /




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They transform some of those same nitrogen-based compounds into solids known as "urates," which are expelled through a shared opening called the cloaca.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2025

It can “breathe” through its cloaca if it needs to.

From NewsForKids.net ● Feb. 6, 2024

Instead they have a single orifice called a cloaca that is used for defecation as well as reproduction in both males and females.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 16, 2023

He swabbed the mouth and the cloaca and finally drew some blood from a vein in the neck.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 8, 2022

The cloaca is divided by transverse circular folds, which project from its inner walls, into three successive chambers.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various

One of the new compounds, lolamicin, selectively targeted some "laboratory strains of gram-negative pathogens including Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Enterobacter cloacae," the researchers found.

From Science Daily ● May 29, 2024

At higher doses, lolamicin killed up to 90% of multidrug-resistant E. coli, K. pneumoniae and E. cloacae clinical isolates.

From Science Daily ● May 29, 2024

Finally, we’re testing truly healthy specimens: we’re going out into the environment, and we’re banding birds and swabbing their eyelids and cloacae.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 13, 2021

Crocodiles and alligators, which are the closest living cousins of dinosaurs, have cloacae that are horizontal slits.

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2020

He provided carefully for the preservation of all the monuments of antiquity, repaired the walls, the aqueducts, the cloacae, and drained the Pontine Marshes.

From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick


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