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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

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

There the intestine, i, is a distinct, cylindrical tube which extends, with not much variation in caliber, and with little variation in position, from this point to the cloaca.

From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by Reese, C. M.




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