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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pseudocoel¹

1885–90; pseudo- + -coel ( def )

Example Sentences

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

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