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    A cloaca (/kloʊˈeɪkə/ kloh-AY-kə), pl.: cloacae (/kloʊˈeɪsi/ kloh-AY-see or /kloʊˈeɪki/ kloh-AY-kee), is the rear orifice that serves as the only opening...
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  • 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...
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    The Cloaca Maxima (Latin: Cloāca Maxima [kɫɔˈaːka ˈmaksɪma], lit. 'Greatest Sewer') or, less often, Maxima Cloaca, was one of the world's earliest sewage...
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    Cloaca is a series of art installations by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye. The installations are computerised machines that recreate the human digestive process...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Enterobacter (redirect from Cloaca (genus))
    pulveris E. pyrinus E. radicincitans E. taylorae E. turicensis E. soli Synonyms Cloaca Castellani & Chalmers, 1919 Aerobacter Hormaeche & Edwards, 1958...
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  • 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...
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    Wim Delvoye (section Cloaca)
    to waste. Cloaca has appeared in many incarnations, including Cloaca Original, Cloaca – New & Improved, Cloaca Turbo, Cloaca Quattro, Cloaca N° 5, and...
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  • Herviella cloaca is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Facelinidae. This species was described from...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    mesonephric duct connects the primitive kidney, the mesonephros, to the cloaca. It also serves as the primordium for male urogenital structures including...
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    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,...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    Cloacina was a goddess who presided over the Cloaca Maxima ('Greatest Drain'), the main interceptor discharge outfall of the system of sewers in Rome....
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  • birth The nipple orifices Other animals may have some other body orifices: cloaca, in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and a few mammals siphon in mollusks, arthropods...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    developing embryo's first opening (the blastopore) becomes the anus and cloaca, while the mouth is formed at a different site later on. This was initially...
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    words μονός (monós 'single') and τρῆμα (trêma 'hole'), referring to the cloaca. Like other mammals, monotremes are endothermic with a high metabolic rate...
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    phallodeum, and inserting it into the female cloaca. The paired Müllerian glands inside the male cloaca secrete a fluid which resembles that produced...
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    stages, particularly their origin of development relative to the embryonic cloaca. Specifically, the hemipenes of Squamata are found to develop on the posterior...
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    underneath, and no tail (the tail of tailed frogs is an extension of the male cloaca). Frogs have glandular skin, with secretions ranging from distasteful to...
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    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...
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  • Cloaca Maxima II (2004) is the second compilation album by the Finnish rock group CMX, released seven years after their first compilation Cloaca Maxima...
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