Mammalian Phenotype Ontology

Last uploaded: April 7, 2025
Id http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MP_0003129
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MP_0003129
Preferred Name

persistent cloaca

Definitions
persistence of an early embryonic state in which the urinary, genital, and gastrointestinal tracts remain confluent and communicate with the exterior through a single perineal opening; due to failure of the urogenital septum to divide the embryonic cloaca into rectal and urogenital portions Note that the term "urogenital sinus" may refer to the primitive urogenital sinus present as a transient developmental structure in most mammals or it may refer to a condition in which an unseptated cloaca persists in animals longer than normal.
Synonyms
urogenital sinus
cloacogenic bladder
congenital cloaca
Type http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Class
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