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peritoneal cavity
Also known as the abdominal cavity, the body cavity of mammals posterior to the diaphragm, containing the liver, spleen, most of the gastrointestinal tract, and other viscera, which almost completely fill it. The term is sometimes used for the perivisceral cavity of other vertebrates.
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