| endodermal cloaca | Terminal portion of the hindgut internal to the cloacal membrane of the embryo. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| persistent cloaca | A condition in which the urorectal fold has failed to divide the cloaca of the embryo into rectal and urogenital portions. Synonym: sinus urogenitalis, urogenital sinus. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| cloaca | 1. <zoology> A common passage for faecal, urinary and reproductive discharge in most lower vertebrates. 2. <embryology> The terminal end of the hindgut before division into rectum, bladder and genital primordia. 3. <pathology> An opening in the involucrum of a necrosed bone. (18 Nov 1997) |
| ectodermal cloaca | The proctodeum of the embryo. (05 Mar 2000) |
| endodermal canal | A flat sheet of intraembryonic endoderm that will change into a tubular gut due to the folding of embryonic body-head, tail and lateral body folds. Synonym: archenteron, celenteron, endodermal canal, subgerminal cavity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| endodermal cells | Embryonic cell's forming the yolk sac and giving rise to the epithelium of the alimentary and respiratory tracts and to the parenchyma of associated glands. Synonym: entodermal cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| endodermal pouches | pharyngeal pouches |
| endodermal sinus tumour | An unusual and aggressive tumour of germ-cell origin that reproduces the extraembryonic structures of the early embryo. It is the most common malignant germ cell tumour found in children. It is characterised by a labyrinthine glandular pattern of flat epithelial cells and rounded papillary processes with a central capillary (schiller-duval body). The tumour is rarely bilateral. Before the use of combination chemotherapy, the tumour was almost invariably fatal. (12 Dec 1998) |
| exstrophy of the cloaca | A developmental anomaly in which an area of intestinal mucosa is interposed between two separate areas of the urinary bladder. Synonym: ectopia cloacae. (05 Mar 2000) |