Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

They had recently tested whether heat-treated coelomic fluid — the internal body fluid of a sea star — could still trigger the disease when injected into a healthy sea star.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2025

Following this whim, he cut open a preserved stellar sea creature from Antarctica, but instead of food, he found new life frozen in time within the creature’s coelomic cavity.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2023

They’ve injected them with coelomic fluid, or “blood” from a sick star, and exposed them to water from a sick star’s tank.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 15, 2023

This cavity is quite distinct from the coelomic cavity, which in the adult animal surrounds the heart.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Usually the first parts of a carcass to be eaten are the hams and part of the viscera from the coelomic cavity.

From Ecological Studies of the Timber Wolf in Northeastern Minnesota by Frenzel, L. D.