Zool. Also in Lat. form cœloma. [ad. Gr. κοίλωμα a hollow, cavity, f. κοῖλος hollow.] The body-cavity of a cœlomate animal.
1878. Bell, Gegenbaur’s Comp. Anat., 135. The cirri … enclose a continuation of the cœlom, so that the perienteric fluid can enter into them.
1879. trans. Haeckel’s Evol. Man, I. ix. 260. We will in future call this cavity the cœloma.
1888. Rolleston & Jackson, Anim. Life, 333. A cavity or a system of cavities or channels, known as the coelome.
