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Webster 1913 Edition
caecum
cae′cum
,Noun.
pl.
Cæcums
, L. Cæca
(#)
. [L.
caecus
blind, invisible, concealed.] (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
.] ☞ 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.
Definition 2024
caecum
caecum
See also: cæcum
English
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Noun
caecum (plural caeca)
- (anatomy) A blind pouch connected to the large intestine between the ileum and the colon.
- 1970: After a preliminary course in anatomy it was found that caecum and transverse colon also provided excellent sites for excitation. — JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition
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blind pouch connected to the large intestine