{"id":547,"date":"2023-01-12T01:36:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T01:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/?p=547"},"modified":"2024-06-18T07:17:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T07:17:05","slug":"bird-cloaca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/index.php\/2023\/01\/12\/bird-cloaca\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird cloaca"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-image-fill\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/85eb18de-a0ed-4fd5-a7ff-c7446dff1848-768x1024.jpg);background-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/85eb18de-a0ed-4fd5-a7ff-c7446dff1848-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Birds have a single opening for passing faecal and urinary waste, and eggs or sperm, called a vent. Inside the vent, the cloaca is divided into 3 sections, which can be remembered using a CUP acronym.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7 Coprodeum is the first (most cranial) section. This is where the rectum opens into.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7 Urodeum is the second section. This is where the ureters and the oviduct (or in males, the deferens duct) open into.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7 Proctodeum is the last section, which opens out to the vent to excrete droppings (which are combined faeces and urates\/urine).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no urinary bladder or urethra.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Image reference and further reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taylor WM. Clinical Significance of the Avian Cloaca: Interrelationships with the Kidneys and the Hindgut. In Speer BL. 2015.&nbsp;<em>Current Therapy in Avian Medicine and Surgery 1st Ed<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birds have a single opening for passing faecal and urinary waste, and eggs or sperm, called a vent. Inside the vent, the cloaca is divided into 3 sections, which can be remembered using a CUP acronym.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"<!-- wp:media-text {\"mediaId\":32,\"mediaLink\":\"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/85eb18de-a0ed-4fd5-a7ff-c7446dff1848\/\",\"mediaType\":\"image\",\"imageFill\":true} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-image-fill\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/85eb18de-a0ed-4fd5-a7ff-c7446dff1848-768x1024.jpg);background-position:50% 50%\"><img src=\"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/85eb18de-a0ed-4fd5-a7ff-c7446dff1848-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\"><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Birds have a single opening for passing faecal and urinary waste, and eggs or sperm, called a vent. Inside the vent, the cloaca is divided into 3 sections, which can be remembered using a CUP acronym.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>\u00b7 Coprodeum is the first (most cranial) section. This is where the rectum opens into.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>\u00b7 Urodeum is the second section. This is where the ureters and the oviduct (or in males, the deferens duct) open into.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>\u00b7 Proctodeum is the last section, which opens out to the vent to excrete droppings (which are combined faeces and urates\/urine).<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There is no urinary bladder or urethra.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/div><\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Image reference and further reading:<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Taylor WM. Clinical Significance of the Avian Cloaca: Interrelationships with the Kidneys and the Hindgut. In Speer BL. 2015.&nbsp;<em>Current Therapy in Avian Medicine and Surgery 1st Ed<\/em>.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[16,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4282,"href":"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/4282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}