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Definition of Cloaca

1. 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.

2. Noun. A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.

Definition of Cloaca

1. n. A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome.

Definition of Cloaca

1. Noun. A sewer. ¹

2. Noun. (anatomy) The common duct in fish, reptiles, birds and some primitive mammals that serves as the anus as well as the genital opening. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cloaca

1. a sewer [n -ACAE or -ACAS] : CLOACAL [adj]

Medical Definition of Cloaca

1. 1. A common passage for faecal, urinary and reproductive discharge in most lower vertebrates. 2. The terminal end of the hindgut before division into rectum, bladder and genital primordia. 3. An opening in the involucrum of a necrosed bone. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloaca

clittered clitters clitties clival cliver clivers clivia clivias clivis clivities

clivity clivus clivus ocularis clm cloacae cloacal cloacal membrane cloacal theory cloacas cloacin

cloacitis cloak cloak-and-dagger cloaked cloakedly cloaking

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