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Caecum   Listen
noun
caecum  n.  (pl. caecums, L. caeca)  (Anat.)
(a)
A cavity open at one end, as the blind end of a canal or duct.
(b)
The blind part of the large intestine beyond the entrance of the small intestine; called also the blind gut. (Also spelled cecum) Note: The caecum 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 caeca.






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... est dignatus Oroden Sternere, nec jacta caecum dare cuspide vulnus Obvius, adversoque occurrit, seque viro vir Contulit, haud furto melior, sed ...
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Words linked to "Caecum" :   large intestine, cavity, appendix, cecal appendage, vermiform appendix, bodily cavity, vermiform process, caecal, cavum, cecum



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