cloaca
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They transform some of those same nitrogen-based compounds into solids known as "urates," which are expelled through a shared opening called the cloaca.
From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2025
It can “breathe” through its cloaca if it needs to.
From NewsForKids.net • Feb. 6, 2024
Instead they have a single orifice called a cloaca that is used for defecation as well as reproduction in both males and females.
From Scientific American • Feb. 16, 2023
Non-mammals, such as birds and reptiles, have a common body opening, called a cloaca, for the digestive, excretory and reproductive systems.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
There the intestine, i, is a distinct, cylindrical tube which extends, with not much variation in caliber, and with little variation in position, from this point to the cloaca.
From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by Reese, C. M.
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