Citations:coprodæum

Noun:

 * 1888, Hans Gadow in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Harrison and Sons; page #26:
 * Whilst in Echidna the rectum shows a large dilatation above the fold rc, and forms there a true rectal chamber or coprodæum for the retention of the fæces, the latter in Ornithorhynchus probably mix with the urine in the chamber UD, which in this genus is very capacious in opposition to the only slightly dilated rectum.
 * 1893, Alfred Newton and Hands Gadow, A Dictionary of Birds, Adam and Charles Black; page #90:
 * The innermost chamber, or “ coprodæum,” is situated above the urodæum, is mostly an oval dilatation of the rectum, and is of considerable size in thosse bird whose fæces are very fluid, as Accipitres, Herodii, and Steganopodes.