epicœle

See also: epicoele

English

Noun

epicœle

  1. (zoology) A perivisceral cavity made by an invagination of an ectoderm.
    • 1921, Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell, A Text‐Book of Zoology, volume II, Macmillan and Co., page 97:
      In the cerebellum the thickening takes place to such an extent that the epicœle is usually obliterated altogether.
  2. (anatomy) epicœlia

References
  • epicœle in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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