Medical Dictionary

cloacitis

noun clo·a·ci·tis \ˌklō-ə-ˈsīt-əs\

Medical Definition of CLOACITIS

:  a chronic inflammatory process of the cloaca of the domestic chicken that is of undetermined cause but is apparently transmitted by copulation—called also vent gleet

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