appendix
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dɪks noun, plural ap·pen·dix·es, ap·pen·di·ces [uh-pen-duh-seez] .
[uh-pen-duh-seez] . 1.
supplementary material at the end of a book, article, document, or other text, usually of an explanatory, statistical, or bibliographic nature. Synonyms: addendum, adjunct, appurtenance; addition, supplement.
2.
an appendage.
3.
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; < Latin: appendage, equivalent to append(ere) to append + -ix (equivalent to -ic- noun suffix + -s nominative singular ending)
1535–45; < Latin: appendage, equivalent to append(ere) to append + -ix (equivalent to -ic- noun suffix + -s nominative singular ending)
Synonym Study
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.
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.
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| the last portion of the colon, beginning at the upper left abdomen in the region of the spleen and continuing downward along the left posterior wall to the sigmoid flexure. |
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World English Dictionary
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| —n , pl -dices, -dixes | |
| 1. | a body of separate additional material at the end of a book, magazine, etc, esp one that is documentary or explanatory |
| 2. | any part that is dependent or supplementary in nature or function; appendage |
| 3. | anatomy See vermiform appendix |
| [C16: from Latin: an appendage, from appendere to | |
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Word Origin & History
appendix
1540s, "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 1610s, especially in reference to the vermiform appendix.
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Medical Dictionary
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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Science Dictionary
| 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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Cultural Dictionary
appendix definition
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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Example sentences
No one can tell you for sure what the appendix does.
With that in mind, he includes a short glossary and lists of spices in his appendix, detailing essential and non-essential spices.
The test is based on a protein excreted in the urine by patients who have an infection in the appendix.
And of course evolution also provided humans with the appendix.
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