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单词 cloaca
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cloacan.

Brit. /kləʊˈeɪkə/, /kləʊˈakə/, U.S. /kloʊˈeɪkə/, /kloʊˈɑkə/
Inflections: Plural cloacæ, cloacas.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin cloāca.
Etymology: < classical Latin cloāca (also clouāca, cluāca) underground drain, sewer, in post-classical Latin also privy (from 13th cent. in British sources), cavity in certain animals (1651 in the passage translated in quot. 1653 at sense 2a) < cluere to purify ( < the same Indo-European base as lutter adj.) + -āca, suffix forming nouns.Compare Middle French, French cloaque sewer (c1355; mid 18th cent. in sense 2).
1.
a. A privy. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun]
gongOE
privy?c1225
room-housec1275
chamber foreignc1300
wardrobea1325
privy chamberc1325
foreignc1390
siegec1400
stool1410
jakes1432
house of easementa1438
kocayc1440
siege-hole1440
siege-house1440
privy house1463
withdraught1493
draught1530
shield1535
bench-hole1542
common house1542
stool1542
jakes house1547
boggard1552
house of office?1560
purging place1577
little house1579
issue1588
Ajax1596
draught-house1597
private1600
necessary house1612
vault1617
longhouse1622
latrine1623
necessary1633
commonsa1641
gingerbread officea1643
boghouse1644
cloaca1645
passage-house1646
retreat1653
shithouse1659
closet of ease1662
garderobe1680
backside1704
office1727
bog?1731
house of ease1734
cuz-john1735
easing-chair1771
backhouse1800
outhouse1819
netty1825
petty1848
seat of ease1850
closet1869
bathroom1883
crapper1927
lat1927
shouse1941
biffy1942
shitholec1947
toot1965
shitter1967
woodshed1974
1637 T. Nabbes Microcosmus iii. sig. D3 My Mistresse Cloaca had a very stinking breath, before Misackmos perfum'd her.]
1645 G. Wither Great Assises in Parnassus 40 To serve with paper all the Cloaca's, That did unto Parnassus appertaine.
1647 H. Neville Exact Diurnall Parl. Ladyes (Wing N504) 8 His Lordship should serve the Cloaca's at the house of Office, all the dayes of his life.
1777 W. Moore Elem. Midwifery v. 41 Symptoms..such as difficulty of making water, attending with frequent inclinations thereto, as well as to visit the cloaca.
1840 F. Marryat Olla Podrida I. xxiv. 249 To every house there is a very neat and clean cloaca.
b. A sewer or drain, esp. the main one serving a particular town or district.Frequently with reference to ancient Rome.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > provision of sewers > [noun] > sewer
cockey1390
gutterc1440
soughc1440
sew1475
withdraught1493
sink1499
syre1513
closet1531
draught1533
vault1533
drain1552
fleet1583
issue1588
drainer1598
guzzle1598
shore1598
sewer1609
vennel1641
cloaca1656
cuniculus1670
pend1817
thurrock1847
sewer line1977
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Cloaca (Lat), the Channel or Sink of a Towne.
1692 W. Bromley Remarks Grande Tour France & Italy 226 Some little Remains are still visible of the Cloaca made by Tarquinius Priscus.
1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 598 The Thames, polluted with the filthy effusions of the cloacæ.
1832 W. Gell Pompeiana II. xiii. 17 The gutter which communicates with the cloaca.
1895 R. Burn Anc. Rome & its Neighborhood v. 131 One of the oldest monuments of Roman masonry is the remaining portion of a cloaca in this district.
1927 Travel Nov. 13 For many years Rome was dominated by the powerful Etruscan dynasty of the Tarquins, who are said to have built the great cloaca, the Servian wall, and the Capitoline temple.
1986 T. Mo Insular Possession (1996) i. 1 Thus for centuries it has fulfilled the functions of road and, as rivers will, cloaca.
2012 Times (Nexis) 4 Dec. 18 The TV crew have finally persuaded me to overcome my fear and to penetrate the cloaca.
2.
a. Zoology. In birds, reptiles, most fishes, and the monotreme mammals: the common chamber or cavity into which the digestive, urinary, and reproductive tracts discharge their contents. Also: a similar cavity in certain invertebrates.In various vertebrate and invertebrate aquatic animals, the cloaca is also used as an organ of respiration, absorbing oxygen from the water.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > substance or secretion and excretion > [noun] > anus
tewelc1386
cloaca1653
nisket1874
1653 W. Harvey Anat. Exercitations vii. 38 This thick sediment; which is distinguished from the other part of the urine,..is not only discernable in the cloaca or sinke [L. in cloaca].
1685 S. Collins Systeme Anat. i. iv. xxxiv. 655 When the Eggs are matured they are conveyed by the Deferent Vessels..into the Cloaca.
1705 Philos. Trans. 1704–05 (Royal Soc.) 24 1578 Immediately under the Skin about the Cloaca , I found a thin fleshy Muscle.
1790 W. Smellie Philos. Nat. Hist. I. 74 These [seminal] ducts terminate in the penis, of which the cock has two, one on each side of the common cloaca.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 7 In birds the rectum, at the termination of its canal, forms an oval or elongated pouch..and then expands into a cavity, which has been named cloaca.
1843 R. Owen Lect. Compar. Anat. Invertebr. Animals xx. 274 The embryo escapes from the ovum, generally while in the cloaca of the parent, but sometimes after the egg has been expelled from the common central outlet.
1886 Notts. Guardian 4 June 2/3 An offensive discharge from the vent, due to inflammatory action in the mucous membrane lining the ‘cloaca’.
1911 Condor 13 178 The birds are fast livers and they void the cloaca at intervals of two or three minutes.
1971 J. Stidworthy Snakes of World 31 (caption) The male rattlesnake throws a body loop across the female and twines their tails together so their cloacas are opposite one another.
1992 Microbial Ecol. 23 270 Many holothuroids..have respiratory structures attached to the rectum or cloaca.
2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures II. 644/1 This turtle is able to remain under water for long periods because it can respirate through a network of blood vessels in its cloaca.
b. Anatomy and Embryology. Originally: the rectum or bladder or either of the openings through which these discharge their contents (now rare). In later use: the common chamber into which the digestive and urinary tracts open in the early embryo of a human or other placental mammal (cf. sense 2a), which normally becomes subdivided into the rectum, bladder, and part of the genital tract, but may persist if such division does not occur.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > embryo or fetus > embryo parts > [noun] > digestive tract
cloaca1726
proctodeum1876
stomodaeum1876
mesenteron1877
stomatodaeum1887
1726 A. Monro Anat. Humane Bones ii. 305 Sufficient Space is thereby left for..the two great Cloacæ of Urine and Fæces.
1758 J. Johnstone Hist. Diss. conc. Malignant Epidemical Fever 1756 40 However highly necessary 'twas, to keep the cloaca of the human body open, that the sordes, which are deposited there,..might be freely evacuated.
1833 H. Mayo Outl. Human Physiol. xv. 410 At the end of the third month the cloaca is divided into the rectum and urinary cavity.
1899 Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. 33 383 Just before the [Wolffian] ducts reach the cloaca the ureters appear as evaginations from them.
1906 Amer. Jrnl. Clin. Med. 13 486/2 A hot saline enema should be administered and sufficient quick-acting salines given to thoroughly empty the cloaca.
1987 M. Cartmill et al. Human Struct. (2001) x. 170 The gut and urogenital organs all empty to the outside through a single opening, via the hindgut dilatation called the cloaca.
2015 A. Peña & A. Bischoff Surg. Treatm. Colorectal Probl. in Children xvi. 232/1 A patient with a cloaca has a very high likelihood of suffering from a urologic condition.
3. Medicine. A passage or opening which allows for the drainage of pus or other similar necrotic matter, esp. any such opening in a bone formed as a result of osteomyelitis.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > discharge of putrid matter > passage for or ejector
evacuator1611
cloaca1711
1711 G. Warren New Method curing Venereal Dis. (ed. 2) 11 An inflammation..may become Annual, and not to be heal'd without manifest danger of his Health, being made a Natural Cloaca or Sink for the Discharge.
1846 F. Brittan tr. J. F. Malgaigne Man. Operative Surg. 172 Across this shell [of bone] small holes are eaten, by which the matter escapes, and which are called cloacæ [Fr. cloaques] (Weidmann).
1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 352 Canals leading from gangrenous cavities to the surface are called cloacæ.
1900 Western Clin. Recorder 2 10 The discharge of pus and necrotic debris continuing from the medullary cavity openings in the new bone persist, resulting in the formation of the characteristic cloacæ of the involucrum.
1977 Jrnl. Zoo Animal Med. 8 12/2 These were typical sequestra, i.e., they contained an involucrum, cloaca, and sequestrum.
2015 L. G. Rubin & A. M. Jacobs in Osteomyelitis Foot & Ankle xiv. 160/2 Possible osteomyelitis is felt to exist when..an MRI demonstrates bone edema or cloaca.
4. figurative. A conduit or gathering-place for moral corruption, depravity, or impurity; an accretion or collection of unpleasant or disagreeable things. Cf. sewer n.1 2b, sink n.1 2.
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society > morality > moral evil > [noun] > moral foulness > receptacle of moral filth
cloacaa1734
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) Pref. p. ii The Book was a continual Libel, or rather Cloaca of Libels.
1793 S. Whyte Theatre (new ed.) 145 So Mævius erst, that Cloaca of wit, Against the great immortal Maro writ.
1838 Fraser's Mag. Sept. 337/1 The Dissenter must go to those cloacas of the age—those turbid puddles—the Dispatch, the Weekly Chronicle, the Sun, [etc.].
1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets iv. 46 That tremendous cloaca of Pauperism.
1879 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 181 The Stock Exchange has been described..as the cloaca bearing with it all the refuse of mankind.
1933 M. Lowry Let. May in Sursum Corda! (1995) I. 123 I give him three months to cleanse the Augean stables of my consciousness, with its fiendish cloaca of memories.
2015 Sunday Times (Nexis) 18 Jan. (Mag.) 56 The cloaca of petrified, florally competitive towns and villages that..stretch up the M40 to the benighted badlands of the Cotswolds.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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