coelom

What does coelom mean?

coelom means "a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity".

How many syllables are in coelom?

coelom has 3 syllables and divides as co-e-lom under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for coelom?

Close synonyms include celom, celoma. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coelom a common word?

coelom is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for coelom come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.