word cloaca - Latin origin.In the Russian language is translated as a place for the collection of sewage.Analyzing what a cesspool must be considered that the word has several meanings, depending on its use.
meaning of the word in zoology
Cloaca in zoology - an extended end of the intestine that goes out and combines the functions of the urinary, genital and anal body systems.Controlled sphincter muscles.
Animals with cloaca:
- of fish - lungfish, sharks and rays;
- all amphibians (frogs, frogs, newts, salamanders, etc.);
- all reptiles (lizards, snakes, chameleons, turtles, crocodiles, and others);
- all birds;
- of mammals - the platypus and echidna it.By the way, mentioned ptitsezveri live in Australia, and to the middle of the last century, scientists even doubted their existence.
This single opening - the cloaca - reptiles, amphibians, birds and other "single-pass" animals provides a single pass urine, feces and used for mating and laying eggs.
Interestingly, some animals this hole also provides protective functions.For example, some snakes through the cloaca emit an unpleasant odor to deter predators.
Appearance outputting a single colon is important to determine the health of animals.If the cloaca parrots, turtles or your other pets bulging outward, red, in the litter, you must be sure to contact your veterinarian for advice.This may be an indication of disorders of the digestive system disease or infectious disease.
What cesspool medically
There is a congenital fetal malformation - congenital cloaca.This is a very serious anomaly is found only in girls.It is characterized by fusion of the vagina, urethra and rectum in a single channel.
treatment is possible only surgically.Operations carried out several newborn baby until the age of 6 months.Given that the surgical correction of congenital is one of the most complex operations, it is carried out only in highly specialized departments of pediatric surgeons.
Forecasts treatment of congenital cloaca depend on many factors:
- timely and correct diagnosis;
- anatomical features of the anomaly;
- the health of the baby.
Cloaca in the building - the historical roots and the present
to drain the swampy ground between the Roman hill in the 4th century BC were built special surface and underground channels.Water drains assigned to these places from drained into the river Tiber.The most spectacular of all was the central land channel, which ancient Romans called "Cloaca Maxima", or "Cloaca Maxima".Later, a network of canals began successfully used as a rainwater drain and urban sewage.
Cloaca Maxima was built of solid huge boulders without cement.The width of the largest channel reaches 3 m, height - 4 m. The structure has served properly the 24th century and is in working condition until now.Today used by the Romans as a storm water drain.
What cesspool in ancient Rome?This is nothing like the prototype of the modern sanitation.
Portable meaning
various dictionaries of the Russian language to explain what a cesspool figuratively.
In the literature the term branded immoral, immoral environment.Place vulgarity, the ugly behavior of deep moral decline, corruption and depravity.Dissolute society, in a word.
synonyms for the word cloaca are the following lexical units: passageway, drainage, sewer, object or device that collects anything dirty, disgusting, unpleasant.Other synonyms - septic or cesspool, pit for sewage, trash, raked, trash, a pigsty, incredibly dirty and neglected place.
Thus, portable interpretation of the word, synonyms and closely related to the historical significance of the "Great Cloaca" - the most important part of the Roman sewer, sewage dump.
