cœloma

See also: coeloma

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sēlōʹmə, IPA^(key): /siːˈləʊmə/

Noun

cœloma (plural cœlomata)

1. Dated form of coelom.
   • 1879, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel [aut.; translator unknown], The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human Ontogeny and Phylogeny, volume 1 (1897, D. Appleton and company), chapter 9, page 260:

     To avoid confusion, we will in future call this cavity the cœloma.