A cloaca (/kloʊˈeɪkə/ kloh-AY-kə), pl.: cloacae (/kloʊˈeɪsi/ kloh-AY-see or /kloʊˈeɪki/ kloh-AY-kee), or vent, is the rear orifice that serves as the only...

Look up cloaca in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cloaca is an anatomical feature of some animals. Cloaca may also refer to: Cloaca (embryology), a structure...

The cloaca (pl.: cloacae) is a structure in the development of the urinary and reproductive organs. The hind-gut is at first prolonged backward into the...

The Cloaca Maxima (Latin: Cloāca Maxima [kɫɔˈaːka ˈmaksɪma], lit. 'Greatest Sewer') or, less often, Maxima Cloaca, was one of the world's earliest sewage...

Cloaca is a series of art installations by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye. The installations are computerised machines that recreate the human digestive process...

persistent cloaca is a symptom of a complex anorectal congenital disorder, in which the rectum, vagina, and urinary tract meet and fuse, creating a cloaca, a...

Cloaca Circi Maximi or Cloaca Circi was one of the three main sewers in ancient Rome. Alongside the Cloaca Maxima and Chiavicone dell'Olmo The Cloaca...

to waste. Cloaca has appeared in many incarnations, including Cloaca Original, Cloaca – New & Improved, Cloaca Turbo, Cloaca Quattro, Cloaca N° 5, and...

pulveris E. pyrinus E. radicincitans E. taylorae E. turicensis E. soli Synonyms Cloaca Castellani & Chalmers, 1919 Aerobacter Hormaeche & Edwards, 1958...

Cloaca Maxima is one of the world's earliest sewage systems. Cloaca Maxima may also refer to: Cloaca Maxima (album), a 1997 compilation album Cloaca Maxima...

CMX, originally Cloaca Maxima, is a Finnish rock band. They originally played hardcore punk, but soon expanded to play a wide variety of rock formats,...

Cloaca is a 2003 Dutch film, directed by Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen. It is a film adaptation of the 2002 theatre play Cloaca written by Maria Goos...

mesonephric duct connects the primitive kidney, the mesonephros, to the cloaca. It also serves as the primordium for male urogenital structures including...

continues to grow caudally until it opens into the ventral part of the cloaca; beyond the pronephros it is termed the mesonephric duct. Thus, the mesonephric...

Herviella cloaca is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Facelinidae. This species was described from...

connected by oviducts to an opening to the outside of the body, typically the cloaca, but sometimes to a unique pore such as a vagina. The human reproductive...

orifice (known as the cloaca) for excreting liquid and solid wastes, for copulation and egg-laying. Monotreme mammals also have a cloaca, which is thought...

Cloacina was a goddess who presided over the Cloaca Maxima ('Greatest Drain'), the main interceptor discharge outfall of the system of sewers in Rome....

urinary and reproductive organs. It is the ventral part of the cloaca, formed after the cloaca separates from the anal canal during the fourth to seventh...

system as a whole did not dramatically improve until the arrival of the Cloaca Maxima, an open channel that was later covered, and one of the best-known...

portion of their pelvic fin which serve to channel semen into the female's cloaca during mating. The act of mating in some fish including sharks usually includes...

phallodeum, and inserting it into the female cloaca. The paired Müllerian glands inside the male cloaca secrete a fluid which resembles that produced...

cloaca between the orifices of the Wolffian ducts. At a later stage, the eminence opens in the middle, connecting the Müllerian ducts with the cloaca...

vagina or cloaca through an intromittent organ during copulation. In most birds, the cloacal kiss is used, the two animals pressing their cloacas together...

cells from the lining of the gut. Feces are discharged through the anus or cloaca during defecation. Feces can be used as fertilizer or soil conditioner in...

words μονός (monós 'single') and τρῆμα (trêma 'hole'), referring to the cloaca. Like other mammals, monotremes are endothermic with a high metabolic rate...

imitate caterpillars, a prey of birds. The adult parasite lives in the bird's cloaca, releasing its eggs into the faeces. The species in Leucochloridium share...

the rectum both empty into the organ called the cloaca. In some reptiles, a midventral wall in the cloaca opens into a urinary bladder. The urinary bladder...

stages, particularly their origin of development relative to the embryonic cloaca. Specifically, the hemipenes of Squamata are found to develop on the posterior...

adult placental mammals have no remaining trace of the cloaca. In the embryo, the embryonic cloaca divides into a posterior region that becomes part of...