The body cavity or schizocele is filled with a clear liquid which functions as blood. The viscera—digestive tract and reproductive organs—are suspended in the schizocele.
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There remains for discussion the mesenchyme theory, which proposes that a mesenchymal schizocele evolved into a cavity lined by a typical ciliated epithelium.
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The adult body cavity is not the direct continuation of the embryonic blastocele as indicated by Hyman (1951) but is rather a schizocele (Remane, 1963).
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