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caecum::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | blind gut, cecum |
| Type of | cavum, bodily cavity, cavity |
| Derivation | caecal |
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Appendicitis is inflammation of the vermiform appendix located at the caecum.
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Expression of endothelin 3 by mesenchymal cells of embryonic mouse caecum.
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Most of the fermentation occurs in the caecum with the help of cellulolyticmicroorganisms.
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Digestion occurs in the intestine, with the caecum producing further digestive enzymes.
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Finally, their gizzard is weak and their caecum is long and narrow.
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It has four elements, with food passing through the crop, stomach and caecum before entering the intestine.
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Eosinophils are normally found in the gastrointestinal tract, notably in the caecum, but not in the oesophagus.
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The human caecum is vestigial, as often is the case in omnivores, being reduced to a single chamber receiving the content of the ileum into the colon.
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First, the close apposition between the midgut and colon that facilitates the migration of ENCCs across the mesentery into the colon without going through the caecum is only transient.
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- Cecum: the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens; "the appendix is an offshoot of the cecum"
- (caecal) cecal: of or like a cecum
- Caecum is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the family Caecidae.
- (also cecum) A blind branch of the alimentary canal, present in many mammals and best developed in certain herbivorous species.
- A diverticulum on each side of the gut at junction of small and large intestines, for additional digestion
- Lies between the ileum and the colon. The appendix is attached to the caecum, the appendix no longer serves any real function and can be removed without any ill effects.
- Refers to a sack or pouch connected to the intestine of mammals. A caecum is usually found in herbivorous mammals and they house bacteria, which help digest the plant material that the mammal eats.
- A blind pouch on an anatomical structure, such as the STOMACH or MANTLE; see also TUBULE (figure: Teredinidae).
- English spelling for cecum (see bowel).
