myelocœle
(ˈmaɪələʊsiːl)
Also -cele, -cœl.
[f. myelo- + -cœle (f. Gr. κοιλία cavity of the body: cf. cœlo-1).]
1. Anat. The central canal of the spinal cord.
| 1885 B. G. Wilder in N.Y. Med. Jrnl. 21 Mar. 326/2 (caption) Schematic representation of the cavities of the brain and myelon... Encephalocoele. Myelocoele. Neurocoele. 1896 ― in Jrnl. Compar. Neurol. VI. 318 (table) Myelocele. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 566/1 Myelocoel, the central canal of the spinal cord. 1972 T. W. Jenkins Funct. Mammalian Neuroanat. ii. 15/1 The lumen of this division (metacoele) joins the myelocoele without any line of demarcation so that both form the fourth ventricle. |
2. Path. Var. of myelocele.