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coelemic cavity lumen
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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. [ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BTO_0001707 ]
Term info
Label
coelemic cavity lumen
Synonyms
- coelomic cavity
- coelomic cavity lumen
- main body cavity
- space of body compartment
Subsets
uberon_slim, vertebrate_core
editor note
check the FMA placement here; ncit placement of body cavity here probably not correct
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].
has alternative id
UBERON:0000169
has broad synonym
body cavity
has narrow synonym
ventral body cavity
has obo namespace
uberon
has related synonym
coelome, hemocoel, coelom, celom
id
UBERON:0002323
taxon notes
In mammals it forms the peritoneal, pleural, and pericardial cavities
Term relations
Subclass of:
- anatomical cavity
- anatomical entity
- immaterial entity
- develops from some future coelemic cavity lumen
- transformation of some future coelemic cavity lumen
- luminal space of some coelom
- part of some coelom