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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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].

main body cavity, coelomic cavity, coelomic cavity lumen, space of body compartment

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body cavity

ventral body cavity

uberon

coelome, hemocoel, celom, coelom

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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon.owl, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cl.owl

In mammals it forms the peritoneal, pleural, and pericardial cavities

• future coelemic cavity lumen

• coelomic epithelium
• viscus
• septum transversum

• abdominopelvic cavity
• thoracic cavity