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Haemocoel

Haemocoel

The cavity in which most of the major organs of the arthropod body are found, it is filled with the fluid haemolymph (the arthropod equivalent of blood), which is pumped by a heart and which circulates among the organs directly without the use of capillaries.it is derived partly from blastocoel. It can be called a mixocoel.


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