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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 privy in private houses was usually situated near the kitchen, and a common drain from the kitchen and the privy discharged into the public cloaca.

From Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine by James Sands Elliott

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

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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