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cloaca

[kloh-ey-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

As the researchers report today in Science, mom released a white substance from her cloaca, which her young immediately gobbled up.

From Science Magazine Mar. 6, 2024

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

It is in the cloaca also that the Clythra and the Cryptocephalus produce the elegant armour of their eggs.

From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

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

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

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

By itself, evidence that non-avian dinosaurs had cloacae isn’t a huge shocker.

From Slate Oct. 21, 2020

Lasting, though inelegant, monuments these; for after twenty-five centuries have passed away, and after so many Romes have arisen and fallen above them, the cloacae of Tarquinius Priscus still remain and admirably serve their purpose.

From Roman Women by Brittain, Alfred




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