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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

Non-mammals, such as birds and reptiles, have a common body opening, called a cloaca, for the digestive, excretory and reproductive systems.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

Now make a careful examination of the cloaca and its apertures, and dissect away the peritoneum hiding the kidney.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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

Bird cloacae are round or square and normally covered up by feathers, unless you’ve ever seen an ostrich evacuate and wondered what the hell you’re looking at.

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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