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ap⋅pen⋅dix
[uh-pen-diks] 
–noun, plural -dix⋅es, -di⋅ces [-duh-seez] .
[-duh-seez] . | 1. | supplementary material at the end of a book, article, document, or other text, usually of an explanatory, statistical, or bibliographic nature. |
| 2. | an appendage. |
| 3. | Anatomy.
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| 4. | Aeronautics. the short tube at the bottom of a balloon bag, by which the intake and release of buoyant gas is controlled. |
Origin:
1535–45; < L: appendage, equiv. to append(ere) to append + -ix (equiv. to -ic- n. suffix + -s nom. sing. ending)
1535–45; < L: appendage, equiv. to append(ere) to append + -ix (equiv. to -ic- n. suffix + -s nom. sing. ending)
Synonyms:
1. addendum, adjunct. Appendix, supplement both mean material added at the end of a book. An appendix gives useful additional information, but even without it the rest of the book is complete: In the appendix are forty detailed charts. A supplement, bound in the book or published separately, is given for comparison, as an enhancement, to provide corrections, to present later information, and the like: A yearly supplement is issued.
1. addendum, adjunct. Appendix, supplement both mean material added at the end of a book. An appendix gives useful additional information, but even without it the rest of the book is complete: In the appendix are forty detailed charts. A supplement, bound in the book or published separately, is given for comparison, as an enhancement, to provide corrections, to present later information, and the like: A yearly supplement is issued.
Usage note:
Appendices, a plural borrowed directly from Latin, is sometimes used, especially in scholarly writing, to refer to supplementary material at the end of a book.
Appendices, a plural borrowed directly from Latin, is sometimes used, especially in scholarly writing, to refer to supplementary material at the end of a book.
vermiform appendix
–noun Anatomy, Zoology.
| a narrow, blind tube protruding from the cecum, having no known useful function, in humans being 3 to 4 in. (8 to 10 cm) long and situated in the lower right-hand part of the abdomen. |
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| ap·pen·dix (ə-pěn'dĭks) n. pl. ap·pen·dix·es or ap·pen·di·ces (-dĭ-sēz')
[Latin, from appendere, to hang upon; see append.] |
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Appendix
Ap*pen"dix\, n.; pl. E. Appendixes, L. Appendices. [L. appendix, -dicis, fr. appendere. See Append.]1. Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant. Normandy became an appendix to England. --Sir M. Hale. 2. Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished from supplement, which is intended to supply deficiencies and correct inaccuracies. Syn: See Supplement.Appendix
Ap*pen"dix\, n. The vermiform appendix.
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Language Translation for : Appendix
Spanish:
apéndice,
German:
der Anhang,
Japanese:
付録
appendix
A small saclike organ located at the upper end of the large intestine. The appendix has no known function in present-day humans, but it may have played a role in the digestive system in humans of earlier times. The appendix is also called the vermiform appendix because of its wormlike (“vermiform”) shape.
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appendix
1549, "subjoined addition to a document or book," from L. appendix "something attached," from appendere (see append). Used for "small outgrowth of an internal organ" from 1615, especially in ref. to the vermiform appendix. Appendicitis is from 1886; appendectomy (1894) is a hybrid, with Gk. -ektomia "a cutting out of."
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Main Entry: ap·pen·dix
Pronunciation: &-'pen-diks
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural ap·pen·dix·es or ap·pen·di·ces /-d&-"sEz/
: a bodily outgrowth or process; specifically :
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appendix ap·pen·dix (ə-pěn'dĭks)
n. pl. ap·pen·dix·es or ap·pen·di·ces (-dĭ-sēz')
- A supplementary or an accessory part of an organ or a structure of the body.
- The vermiform appendix.
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| appendix (ə-pěn'dĭks) Pronunciation Key
Plural appendixes or appendices (ə-pěn'-dĭ-sēz') A tubular projection attached to the cecum of the large intestine and located on the lower right side of the abdomen. Also called vermiform appendix. |
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