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noun
A fluid-filled cavity within the body of an animal. The digestive system is suspended within the cavity, which is lined by a tissue called the peritoneum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: celom, celoma
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cavity, bodily cavity, cavum
History
From international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin, from Ancient Greek κοίλωμα (koílōma, “hollow, cavity”). Cognate with coeliac.
Across languages
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
