epicœle

noun

A perivisceral cavity made by an invagination of an ectoderm.

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Meanings

noun
  1. biologyA perivisceral cavity made by an invagination of an ectoderm.

    In the cerebellum the thickening takes place to such an extent that the epicœle is usually obliterated altogether.

    1921, Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell, A Text‐Book of Zoology, volume II, Macmillan and Co., page 97
  2. anatomyepicœlia
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