(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:26:22

Ep"i*coele (?), n. [Pref. epi- + Gr. a hollow.] Anat.

A cavity formed by the invagination of the outer wall of the body, as the atrium of an amphioxus and possibly the body cavity of vertebrates.

 

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