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Noun: celoma  sel-ow-mu
Usage: US, non-standard
  1. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity
    - celom [US], coelom

Type of: bodily cavity, cavity, cavum