cloacae

Before they were thrown into the air, they were kept for three hours and deprived of food to empty their guts, and some “measure” was taken to prevent them defecating on the wing similar experiments with tippler pigeons involved their cloacae being “sealed” somehow.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

I note that it shares a producer with the insanely overhyped Juno -- but unlike that movie this slim narrative is not overwhelmed by irritating kitsch and a relentlessly twee soundtrack (it's only kinda twee), plus the dialogue doesn't totally suck seagull cloacae.

Gregory Weinkauf: When Harry Met Sadness: (500) Days of Summer Reconsiders American Romantic Comedy 2009

Undercover videos also implicated North Carolina turkey producer House of Raeford this fall revealing workers holding birds under truck wheels to be crushed and inserting their fingers into birds 'cloacae or vaginal cavities to remove eggs and throw them at each other.

Is Gourmet Slaughter by Chefs the Solution to Factory Farm Abuses? 2008

"There are multiple shots of moribund chickens with ailments ranging from broken limbs to abscessed cloacae to illness so severe the birds are unable to open their eyes or stand," commented Santa Rosa veterinarian Dr. Christi Camlbor after viewing the video.

Egg Supplier to Dept. of Defense Caught in Cruel Video; Trader Joe's Dumps 2008

The rate of infectivity in terms of mortality was as follows: E. aerogenes and E. cloacae (94.3%); B. cereus

Chapter 8 1994

Aerobacter cloacae has been isolated and may be responsible in part for increases in the content of riboflavin and niacin in ogi.

Chapter 6 1984

There exist in the mud of marshes, rivers and cloacae, &c., however, other anaerobic bacteria which decompose cellulose, probably hydrolysing it first and then splitting the products into carbon dioxide and marsh gas.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

Thence it poured down, cleansing, sluicing, working machinery of all sorts, through an infinite variety of capillary channels into the great drains, the _cloacae maximae_, and so carried the sewage out to the agricultural areas that surrounded London on every side.

Tales of Space and Time 1906

Bradley-martin's sartorial kings and pseudo-queens, her dukes and DuBarrys, princes and Pompadours, have strutted their brief hour upon the mimic stage, disappearing at daybreak like foul night-birds or an unclean dream -- have come and gone like the rank eructation of some crapulous Sodom, a malodor from the cloacae of ancient capitals, a breath blown from the festering lips of half-forgotten harlots, a stench from the sepulcher of centuries devoid of shame.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

He pointed to a hole in the ground, which resembled those that led down to the cloacae.

Historical Miniatures August Strindberg 1880