caecum
Other words from caecum
- caecal, adjective
- cae·cal·ly, adverb
- post·cae·cal, adjective
- sub·cae·cal, adjective
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How to use caecum in a sentence
Carnivorous, desmognathous, nidicolous, without functional caeca.
The oesophagus is short and leads into a long, straight stomach, provided with numerous symmetrical lateral caeca.
The intestine is provided with numerous branched caeca in Aphrodite.
Among the purely aquatic families such structures are very rare, and are represented by two caeca in the genus Limnodriloides.
In Benhamia caecifera and at least one other earthworm there are numerous caeca, one pair to each segment.
British Dictionary definitions for caecum
US cecum
/ (ˈsiːkəm) /
anatomy any structure or part that ends in a blind sac or pouch, esp the pouch that marks the beginning of the large intestine
Origin of caecum
1Derived forms of caecum
- caecal or US cecal, adjective
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