gatitira
- vent, cloaca. Vent, cloaca. The external opening of the digestive, urinary, and reproductive tracts in poultry, an important anatomical feature for health assessment in chickens.
Example: Ikehakania kĩoro gatitira-inĩ (Faeces smear around vent region); Ndariri cia mũrimũ ũyũ nĩ ngũkũ kũinamĩrĩra mũno, kũharwo coka, maguoya mahake mai gatitira-inĩ, kũiba na thutha kana cloaca, na mũthia gũkua. (Symptoms include severe prostration, watery whitish diarrhea, soiled vent feathers, inflammation of the cloaca and eventually death.); Rĩmwe nathutha gatitira-inĩ hakoragwo hahakanĩtio mai. (The vent is sometimes smeared with fecal discharges.)