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hemocoel

hemocoel is the alternative form 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 hemocoel

pluralhemocoels

Words formed from hemocoel

Questions about hemocoel

What is hemocoel the alternative form of?
Hemocoel is the alternative form of haemocoel.

Words near hemocoel in the dictionary

  1. hemoclysm
  2. hemoclysms
  3. hemocoagulase
  4. hemocoagulation
  5. hemocoagulative
  6. hemocoel
  7. hemocoelic
  8. hemocoelomic
  9. hemocoelomically
  10. hemocoels
  11. hemocompatibility

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