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cœloma

cœloma

See also: coeloma

English

Noun

cœloma (plural cœlomata)

  1. Obsolete spelling 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.