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  • noun biology A cavity, between the organs of arthropods and mollusks, through which the blood etc. circulates

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Examples

  • Fungal spores stick to the surface of the insect, germinate, and send out hyphae which penetrate the cuticle and invade the haemocoel.

    Chapter 8 1994

  • Pathogenic spores germinate in the gut and the multiplying vegetative bacterial rods invade the haemocoel producing toxaemia and septicaemia.

    Chapter 8 1994

  • Freezing was readily observed in all larvae, and on one occasion the gut was seen to freeze separately from the haemocoel.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Brent J. Sinclair et al. 2009

  • Nevertheless, the observable freezing of the gut was not a common event, suggesting that there is no consistent barrier to ice propagation between the haemocoel and gut in these larvae.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Brent J. Sinclair et al. 2009

  • Freezing was readily observed in all larvae, and on one occasion the gut was seen to freeze separately from the haemocoel.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Brent J. Sinclair et al. 2009

  • Figure 6), freezing of a non-diapausing C. amoena appeared to occur separately in the gut and the haemocoel, but this was the only occasion on which we were able to discern any distinct compartmentalised freezing that might indicate differential freezing in soft tissues.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Brent J. Sinclair et al. 2009

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