Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Possessing a coelom.
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- noun zoology Any
animal possessing a fluid-filledcavity within which thedigestive system issuspended . - adjective zoology Having a
coelom .
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Examples
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It's the body cavity of a coelomate animal, and that phrase is not usefully defined.
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The important point for us is that, just as all Metazoa were considered by Haeckel to be descended from the Gastræa, so all Coelomati were held by the Hertwigs to be derived from an original coelomate _Urform_.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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The persistent lack of resolution of the relationships of the three major clades of coelomate animals, for example, arguably reflects rapid diversification of the "Cambrian Explosion."
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Gerbil First Class posted on Sun Dec 28, 2008 11: 15 pm coelomate wrote: Can you elaborate?
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"body cavity of a coelomate animal" 'tis simple, it be the cavity of an animal that has a body cavity.coele Gr Koilia body cavity a chamber. like "win a victory"
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My current processor is a 2 ghz Pentium M in a laptop, so I'm not sure at all what multiple cores actually get done in the real world, and am having trouble finding such info. posted on Sun Dec 28, 2008 9: 05 pm coelomate wrote: Say I have two monitors (19x12 and 16x10) up and rocking, and decide to have an instant messaging program, iTunes, a spread sheet, a word document, and firefox all running.
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