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A 23-meter-long sailboat set off last week from Argentina for Antarctica’s Weddell Sea with eight scientists, lots of cloacal swabs, and a genetic fingerprinting machine aboard.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 18, 2024

Once corralled, the birds will undergo a blood draw, as well as an oral and cloacal swab.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2022

The souqs were its crown jewel, a cloacal maze of market stalls packed with spices, fabrics, silks, leather, soaps, gold, meat, fruit, carpets, toilet seats — almost anything.

From New York Times • May 24, 2017

Digestive and excretory wastes are collected in a cloacal bladder before being released out the anus.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Figure 5H represents a section through the cloacal region, cl, showing the openings into the cloaca of the Wolffian ducts, wdo.

From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by Reese, C. M.