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

In the Mollusca, it is true, the pericardial part of the coelom was held to be separate from the vascular, and the Hertwigs had reached the correct conception that the pericardium of these animals was alone true coelom, the vascular part being pseudocoel.

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