cloaca
cloacal
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a word derived from
cloaca.
Example Sentences
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An onboard polymerase chain reaction machine will allow them to quickly detect H5N1’s genetic fingerprint in cloacal swabs and other samples, helping them map infections.
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
For instance, the heart at first exists as a simple pulsating vessel; the excreta are voided through a cloacal passage; and the os coccyx projects like a true tail, "extending considerably beyond the rudimentary legs."
From The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
