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Cloaca meaning
A sewer. | The opening in reptiles, amphibians and birds, as well as elasmobranchians, lobe-finned fishes, and monotreme mammals, which serves as the common outlet for the urogenital ducts and rectum. | An outhouse or lavatory.
Synonyms of Cloaca
Example sentences (17)
The terrified turkey hen is held upside down while a hypodermic syringe delivers sperm into her oviduct via the exposed cloaca.
Oh, yeah, I totally want to see Left Sharkâs cloaca!
Amphibians, reptiles, and birds use the same orifice (known as the cloaca ) for excreting liquid and solid wastes, for copulation and egg -laying.
By this time, it may have been drained Tarquin might have employed the plebs in constructing a conduit or drain (cloaca) for Murcia's stream, discharging into the Tiber.
He then inserts one of his claspers into her cloaca where they remain for sixty to ninety seconds.
In fish, there is no true large intestine, but simply a short rectum connecting the end of the digestive part of the gut to the cloaca.
It is hypothesized that the cloaca everts to serve as copulatory organ.
Rosenfeld (1989), p. 11. The scalation count determines whether the snake is a male or female as hemipenes of a male will probe to a different depth (usually longer) than the cloaca of a female.
The rectum of mammals (other than monotremes ) is derived from the cloaca of other vertebrates, and is, therefore, not truly homologous with the "rectum" found in these species.
There is no penis, and sperm is ejected from the cloaca directly onto the eggs as the female lays them.
The Romans connected the river with a sewer system (the Cloaca Maxima ) and with an underground network of tunnels and other channels, to bring its water into the middle of the city.
These projections, called papillae, have a rich blood supply, and increase the surface area of the cloaca.
These small, claw-like protrusions on each side of the cloaca are the external portion of the vestigial hindlimb skeleton, which includes the remains of an ilium and femur.
The spermatozoa move to the spermatheca in the roof of the cloaca where they remain until ovulation which may be many months later.
The "tail" is only possessed by the male and is an extension of the cloaca and used to inseminate the female.
The urine passes along paired ureters to the urinary bladder from which it is vented periodically into the cloaca.
Typically, females are larger than the males; their scales and the skin folds around the cloaca differ.