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Cloaca

"Cloaca" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A dilated cavity extended caudally from the hindgut. In adult birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes but few mammals, cloaca is a common chamber into which the digestive, urinary and reproductive tracts discharge their contents. In most mammals, cloaca gives rise to LARGE INTESTINE; URINARY BLADDER; and GENITALIA.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cloaca" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Cloaca" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 29 publications over 16 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2011
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