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. [ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BTO_0001707 ]
Synonyms: main body cavity coelomic cavity coelomic cavity lumen space of body compartment
Term information
- FMA:85006
- EHDAA2:0000267
- ZFA:0001438
- AEO:0000186
- galen:BodyCavity
- BTO:0001707
- NCIT:C25444
- SCTID:361348008
- UMLS:C0333343 (ncithesaurus:Cavity)
- FBbt:00005060
- TAO:0001438
- RETIRED_EHDAA2:0003186
uberon_slim, vertebrate_core
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
- anatomical cavity
- immaterial entity
- transformation of some future coelemic cavity lumen
- luminal space of some coelom