Definition of Caecom
||Cæ"cum (?), n.; 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.
&fist; 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (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
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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