The cavity within the body of all animals higher than the coelenterates and certain primitive worms, formed by the splitting of the embryonic mesoderm into two layers. In mammals it forms the peritoneal, pleural, and pericardial cavities. [ ]
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Term information
database cross reference
- FBbt:00005060
- BTO:0001707
- ZFA:0001438
- EHDAA2:0000267
- UMLS:C0333343 (ncithesaurus:Cavity)
- AEO:0000186
- TAO:0001438
- RETIRED_EHDAA2:0003186
- FMA:85006
- null:http://www.snomedbrowser.com/Codes/Details/361348008
- null:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0333343
- galen:BodyCavity
- NCIT:C25444
Subsets
uberon_slim, vertebrate_core
external definition
The cavity within the body of all animals higher than the coelenterates and certain primitive worms, formed by the splitting of the embryonic mesoderm into two layers. In mammals it forms the peritoneal, pleural, and pericardial cavities[BTO].
Anatomical space, part of the trunk that contains the pericardial and pleuroperitoneal cavities[ZFA].
Term relations
Subclass of:
- anatomical cavity
- develops from some future coelemic cavity lumen
- transformation of some future coelemic cavity lumen
- luminal space of some coelom
- part of some coelom
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