body cavity

noun

the internal cavity of any multicellular animal that contains the digestive tract, heart, kidneys, etc. In vertebrates it develops from the coelom

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Heaven help us the first time a would-be suicide bomber is caught with explosives hidden in a body cavity.

Then the waiter grabbed a plate and smashed it through the body cavity of the pig.

Perhaps with his—or her—body cavity filled with home-made explosives?

They are animals in which the real body cavity is lacking, the animal in its simplest form being little more than a bag.

In the Ord kangaroo rat, the bulk of the liver lies on the right side of the body cavity.

In both sexes the Mllerian duct has a wide opening near the anterior extremity of the body-cavity.

These open widely into the abdominal cavity, at about two-thirds of the distance from the anterior extremity of the body-cavity.

He finds that the segmental ducts develop first of all as simple involutions from the body-cavity.

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