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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr.

ἔντερον

an intestine +

κοῖλον

a hollow.]

(Anat.)

A perivisceral cavity which arises as an outgrowth or outgrowths from the digestive tract; distinguished from a

schizocœle

, which arises by a splitting of the mesoblast of the embryo.