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hemocel

hemocel is the alternative spelling of haemocoel.

Meaning of haemocoel

Noun

haemocoel (plural haemocoels)

  1. The cavity, between the organs of arthropods and molluscs, through which the blood etc. circulates.
    • The remarkable displacement of the cœlom by an irregularly distended system of blood-spaces, “a hæmocœl” (which, Prof. Lankester has elsewhere shown, takes place in the Arthropoda and Mollusca), is lucidly described in this Introduction.1901, “Bibliographical Notices”, in The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, volume VII, page 133

Forms of hemocel

pluralhemocels

Questions about hemocel

What is hemocel the alternative spelling of?
Hemocel is the alternative spelling of haemocoel.

Words near hemocel in the dictionary

  1. hemocateresis
  2. hemocateretic
  3. hemocatharsis
  4. hemocathartic
  5. hemoccult
  6. hemocel
  7. hemocels
  8. hemochomatosis
  9. hemochorial
  10. hemochorioendothelial
  11. hemochorionic

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