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Cloacal

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clo·a·ca  (kl-k)
n. pl. clo·a·cae (-s)
1. A sewer or latrine.
2. Zoology
a. The common cavity into which the intestinal, genital, and urinary tracts open in vertebrates such as fish, reptiles, birds, and some primitive mammals.
b. The posterior part of the intestinal tract in various invertebrates.
[Latin cloca, sewer, canal.]
clo·acal (-kl) adj.


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50] of hMPV in the conjunctivae and respiratory tracts of 4 juvenile turkeys (age and breed of turkeys were not mentioned) and over a 3-week period examined the birds for clinical signs and virus replication by sampling cloacal and throat swabs.
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Unfortunately, here and there in this and other chapters, Crouch adopts a rather bullying, sneering tone often accompanied by cloacal allusions addressed generally to persons with whom he disagrees.
Stanley Crouch. The Artificial White Man: Essays on Authenticity by Margolies, Edward / African American Review
A torso may rise conventionally up to an Elizabethan ruff only to be topped by the head of a beagle; a man may make a hat out of a cloacal nest of sausages; a woman may have one head but three faces, each sharing at least one eye with its neighbor.
Paloma Varga Weisz: Barbara Gladstone Gallery by Frankel, David / Artforum International
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