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|label=brown bodies
|definition=1. ([[Annelida]]: Oligochaeta) Spheroidal, [[ellipsoidal]] or [[discoidal]] masses, free in the coelomic cavities, containing corpuscles or brown debris, setae, cysts of parasites, [[nematodes]] and various other foreign bodies. 

2. ([[Bryozoa]]) In [[Stenolaemata]] and [[Gymnolaemata]], an encapsulated mass of degenerating cells from the [[lophophore]], [[gut]], muscles and other nonskeletal parts of a [[zooid]], retained in the [[body cavity]] or expelled after [[regeneration]] of feeding and digestive organs. See also [[brown deposit]]. 

3. ([[Echinodermata]]: [[Holothuroidea]]) Small clumps of amoebocytes, parasites and other ejecta found in the [[coelom]].
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