Definition of Cloacal

1. a. Of or pertaining to a cloaca.

Definition of Cloacal

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the cloaca or the sewer ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cloacal

1. cloaca [adj] - See also: cloaca

Medical Definition of Cloacal

1. Pertaining to the cloaca. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloacal

clitties
clival
cliver
clivers
clivia
clivias
clivis
clivities
clivity
clivus
clivus ocularis
clm
cloacae
cloacal (current term)
cloacal membrane
cloacal theory
cloacas
cloacin
cloacitis
cloak
cloak-and-dagger
cloaked
cloakedly
cloaking
cloaking device
cloaking devices

Literary usage of Cloacal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. University of Toronto Studies by University of Toronto (1900)
"The cloacal membrane lies somewhat ventral to the primitive knot and is larger in ... The primitive knot, the cloacal membrane, and still more ventrally, ..."

2. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1900)
"... atrial, or cloacal cavity. The first rudiments which lead to the ... the cloacal vesicles, by enlarging, give rise to the paired halves of the ..."

3. A Laboratory Manual and Text-book of Embryology by Charles William Prentiss (1915)
"Diagrams showing in median sagittal section the alimentary canal, pharyngeal and cloacal membranes. A, 2 mm. embryo, modified after His; B, 2.5 mm. embryo, ..."

4. The Mammalia in Their Relation to Primeval Times by Schmidt (Eduard Oskar) (1886)
"... cloacal OR FORKED ANIMALS. An example as to how the animal form should not be conceived is given by Giebel, a man of vast knowledge but yet opposed to ..."

5. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1906)
"ON A SPECIMEN OF THE HIND-GUT OPENING INTO A cloacal CHAMBER IN A CHILD. By FS MACKENZIE, MB, Ch.B., with a Note by Professor ARTHUR ROBINSON. ..."

6. The Evolution of Man by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haecknel (1879)
"Tho Three Main Groups or Sub-classes of .Mammal- : their Genealogical Relations.—Sixteenth Ancestral Stage : cloacal Animals (Monotremata, ..."

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