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CELOM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity
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Hypernyms ("celom" is a kind of...):
bodily cavity; cavity; cavum ((anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body)