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cloaca
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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cloaca sewer XVIII; (anat.) excretory canal XIX. — L.
cloāca,
cluāca, earlier
clovāca, rel. to
cluere cleanse, f. IE. *
klu- *
kleu- *
klou-, repr. also by OE.
hlūt(t)or pure, Gr.
klúzein wash, bathe.
So
cloacal XVII.
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Cloaca.(Theater Review)
Magazine article from: Daily Variety; 10/4/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Nell Pearson Woman Ingeborga Dapkunaita "Cloaca" is the Latin word for sewer, which...constituted the appeal on the page of "Cloaca" beyond the desire (altogether welcome...Advance word trumpeted the similarities of "Cloaca" to Yasmina Reza's Tony-winning...
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Enterobacter cloacae emerging as a common pathogen in neonatal units.
Newspaper article from: Biotech Week; 9/8/2004; 700+ words
; ...amp; NewsRx.net) -- Enterobacter cloacae is emerging as a common pathogen in neonatal...blood cultures positive with Enterobacter cloacae. "Screening cultures and genotyping...25 screened patients also carried E. cloacae and that nine isolates belonged to the...
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Enterobacter cloacae outbreak and emergence of quinolone resistance gene in Dutch hospital.
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; An outbreak of Enterobacter cloacae infections with variable susceptibility...aminoglycoside-resistant Enterobacter cloacae infections with variable susceptibility...gene. Group I consisted of 178 E. cloacae pulsed-field gel electrophoresis...
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NmcA carbapenem-hydrolyzing enzyme in Enterobacter cloacae in North America (1). (Dispatches).
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases; 8/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; An imipenem-resistant Enterobacter cloacae isolate was recovered from the blood of...hydrolyzing enzyme, NmcA, in an Enterobacter cloacae isolate. The Study A 33-year-old...was begun, and imipenem-resistant E. cloacae was isolated from the blood. After the...
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Genetics Enterobacter Cloacae and Acinetobacter Baumannii Sequenced.
Newspaper article from: Gene Therapy Weekly; 10/26/1998; 700+ words
; ...sequence virulent strains of Enterobacter cloacae and Acinetobacter baumannii, two gram...PathoGenome. The genomic information of E. cloacae and A. baumannii was derived from recent...have identified more than 5,000 new E. cloacae genes, by sequencing 5.0 million base...
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Genome Therapeutics is First to Sequence Enterobacter Cloacae and Acinetobacter Baumannii.
PR Newswire; 10/15/1998; 700+ words
; ...sequence virulent strains of Enterobacter cloacae and Acinetobacter baumannii, two gram...TM). The genomic information of E. cloacae and A. baumannii was derived from recent...have identified more than 5,000 new E. cloacae genes, by sequencing 5.0 million base...
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EATER'S DIGEST.(Wim Delvoye's "Cloaca, 2000")(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 9/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...mosaics made in the early '90s)--and Cloaca, 2000, takes its rightful place as art...Pretty much the way you and I do. While Cloaca resembles an assembly line more than a...highly realistic odor that emanates from Cloaca's nether regions. Delvoye collects...
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Effect of some environmental parameters on fermentative hydrogen production by Enterobacter cloacae DM11.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Microbiology; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...production was carried out by Enterobacter cloacae DM11, using glucose as the substrate...Key words: hydrogen, Enterobacter cloacae DM11, fermentation, glucose, [H...hydrogene fut accomplie par Enterobacter cloacae DM11 en employant le glucose comme substrat...
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Opening this week Cloaca at the Old Vic
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 9/26/2004; ; 378 words
; ...with the opening of Maria Goos's play Cloaca (tickets 0870 060 6628). It is the...rather than their celebrity wattage. Cloaca, the Latin word for `sewer', depicts...familiar to London theatregoers - but if Cloaca is half the hit Art was, Spacey will...
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A previously unreported variant of exstrophy cloaca
Magazine article from: The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics; 11/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...previously unreported variant of exstrophy cloaca. Turk J Pediatr 2008; 50: 609-611...bowel is the main component of exstrophy cloaca, which makes our case unique with regard...the presumptive diagnosis of exstrophy cloaca. He was born to a 31 -year-old woman...
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cloaca
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
cloaca , in biology, enlarged posterior end of the digestive tract of some animals. The cloaca, from the Latin word for sewer, is a single...separate rectal outlet, the anus. The term cloaca is also used for analogous chambers in many...
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Shrews
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...than most mammals is the presence of a cloaca in many species. This is an external...from which mammals evolved, also have a cloaca. Shrews digest their food very rapidly...with the entrances underwater. KEY TERMS Cloaca — A chamber into which both...
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Monotremes
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...separate reproductive and excretory systems, monotremes have a cloaca, with only one external opening for excretion and reproduction...it to a KEY TERMS Albumen — The white of an egg. Cloaca — The cavity into which the intestinal, genital...
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Platypus
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...hatched outside the body. Monotremes, like all reptiles, also have a cloaca, a single opening through which feces, urine, and sperm or eggs pass. In other mammals, the cloaca is divided into an anus and genitourinary passages. Like other mammals...
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hemipenis
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
...paired, erectile, copulatory organ, protruded through the cloaca . Only one hemipenis is inserted into the body of the female...sperm is carried from the testes by ducts that open into the cloaca, whence it flows along a groove on the surface of the hemipenis...
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