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UK
/klˈəʊkɐ/
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NOUN
- (zoology) the cavity (in birds, reptiles, amphibians, most fish, and monotremes but not mammals) at the end of the digestive tract into which the intestinal, genital, and urinary tracts open
- a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water
How To Use cloaca In A Sentence
- (known as a cloaca, as in both birds and reptiles). PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
- But most birds and Sphenodon lack intromittent organs and transfer sperm by cloacal apposition.
- After testing, we later found out the birth defect has a name, cloacal exstrophy, or ambiguous genitalia. Angels of a Lower Flight
- This structure is actually a highly vascularized extension of the cloaca which allows internal fertilization.
- To determine the presence of yeast in cloacae, swabs were streaked onto Sabouraud's dextrose agar and incubated for 14 days.
- Myers was born a male with cloacal exstrophy, a rare defect that includes an exposed gastrointestinal tract and bladder. Inmate sues Va. prison system
- The bursa of Fabricius is an organ located just beside the cloaca.
- The cloacal and genial glands were chosen because they release pheromones used in mate attraction or courtship.
- As indicated by the morphological description above, the postcranial skeleton of Haasiophis (and Pachyrhachis) generally corresponds to an ophidian morphology with no apparent regionalization of the precaudal (precloacal) axial skeleton.
- Objective To investigate the drug sensitivity situation of cloacae to instruct application of the antibiotics reasonably.
