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pseudocoel

[ soo-doh-seel ]

noun

, Zoology.
  1. the body cavity of certain invertebrate metazoan animals between the body wall and the intestine, which is not lined with a mesodermal epithelium.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pseudocoel1

1885–90; pseudo- + -coel ( def )
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Example Sentences

The Hertwigs (Coelomtheorie, Jena, 1881) distinguished two kinds, the enterocoel and the pseudocoel.

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