metacœlome Biol.
(mɛtəˈsiːləʊm)
Also -om.
[f. meta- + cœlome.]
(See quot.)
| 1888 Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 223 Nephridial funnels appear to be present in all Leeches... They are perforate in Nephelis and Trochaeta, and in these genera they open into special spaces developed in the botryoidal tissue, termed by Gibbs Bourne ‘metacoelome’. |
So ‖ metacœlosis (-siːˈləʊsɪs): see quot.
| 1884 Bourne in Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. XXIV. 477 This development of new cœlomic space (botryoidal tissue) may be termed metacœlosis. |