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appendix
[ uh-pen-diks ]
noun
- supplementary material at the end of a book, article, document, or other text, usually of an explanatory, statistical, or bibliographic nature.
Synonyms: addition, appurtenance, addendum, supplement, adjunct
- an appendage.
- Anatomy.
- a process or projection.
- the vermiform appendix.
- Aeronautics. the short tube at the bottom of a balloon bag, by which the intake and release of buoyant gas is controlled.
appendix
/ əˈpɛndɪks /
noun
- a body of separate additional material at the end of a book, magazine, etc, esp one that is documentary or explanatory
- any part that is dependent or supplementary in nature or function; appendage
- anatomy See vermiform appendix
appendix
/ ə-pĕn′dĭks /
, Plural appendixes ə-pĕn′-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
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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The longtime justice, appointed by President Clinton, added a lengthy appendix of evidence he found relevant to his dissent.
Things go well until Oscar the Grouch is diagnosed with a burst appendix and Romney discovers he is uninsured.
That appendix is taken more seriously because it is between the covers of a holy book.
Comes with the funniest footnotes and appendix (no kidding) ever written.
The procedure is now the most common surgery performed in the U.S.—more common than getting your tonsils or appendix removed.
I shall then give an account of my various excursions in an Appendix, and afterwards resume the thread of my journal.
The geological character of this rock is more fully treated upon in the Appendix by my friend Dr. Fitton.
See Appendix I for the exact facts which were not known to me until long afterwards.
Mr. Brae, in the Appendix to his edition of Chaucer's Astrolabe (p. 101), has a long note on the present passage.
The table as prepared is set out in Appendix A to this report.
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