schizocele

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English

Etymology

From schizo- +‎ -cele.

Noun

schizocele (plural not attested)

  1. (rare, nonstandard) Alternative form of schizocoel
    • 1956, William George Sawitz, Medical Parasitology for Medical Students and Practicing Physicians:
      The body cavity or schizocele is filled with a clear liquid which functions as blood. The viscera—digestive tract and reproductive organs—are suspended in the schizocele.
    • 1963, Ellsworth C. Dougherty, The Lower Metazoa, Comparative Biology and Phylogeny, page 87:
      There remains for discussion the mesenchyme theory, which proposes that a mesenchymal schizocele evolved into a cavity lined by a typical ciliated epithelium.
    • 2012, B Zuckerman, Morphology, Anatomy, Taxonomy, and Ecology, →ISBN, page 67:
      The adult body cavity is not the direct continuation of the embryonic blastocele as indicated by Hyman (1951) but is rather a schizocele (Remane, 1963).