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Caecal adj. (Anat.)

Of or pertaining to the caecum, or blind gut.

Having the form of a caecum, or bag with one opening; baglike; as, the caecal extremity of a duct.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Caecal" Quotes from Famous Books

... milk that nourishes the young. The glands vary in number. The mare has two, the cow four (Fig. 17), the ewe two and animals that give birth to several young, eight or more. Each gland is surmounted by a teat or nipple. The glandular tissue consists of caecal vesicles that form grape-like clusters around the milk tubules. The milk tubules from the different portions of the gland converge and form larger tubules that finally empty into small sinuses or ...

— Common Diseases of Farm Animals • R. A. Craig, D. V. M.

... shall be constantly kept full not only with fluid, but, as I would suggest, antiseptic fluid. There is no other trap in the intestinal canal, but the peculiar position of the colon would no doubt have more or less effect in preventing gases ascending through the ileo-caecal valve.—Lancet. ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 • Various

Words linked to "Caecal" : caecum, cecum, cecal