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caecum
CIDE DICTIONARY
caecum, n. [L. caecus blind, invisible, concealed.].
A cavity open at one end, as the blind end of a canal or duct. [1913 Webster]
" The cæcum is comparatively small in man, and ends in a slender portion, the vermiform appendix; but in herbivorous mammals it is often as large as the rest of the large intestine. In fishes there are often numerous intestinal cæca." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
caecum, n. (US cecum) (pl. -ca) a blind-ended pouch at the junction of the small and large intestines.
Derivative
caecal adj.
Etymology
L for intestinum caecum f. caecus blind, transl. of Gk tuphlon enteron
ROGET THESAURUS
caecum
Closure
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