Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the cæcum; of the nature of or resembling a cæcum: as, a cæcal appendage.
- Blind, as a cul-de-sac or cæcum; ending blindly, like a cæcum: as, the cæcal end of a duct.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the cæcum, or blind gut.
- adjective Having the form of a cæcum, or bag with one opening; baglike.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the
caecum .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or like a cecum
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Examples
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Among the complications that become inserted in herbivore guts are things called caecal valves.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Among the complications that become inserted in herbivore guts are things called caecal valves.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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The gut, except in those animals where it is straight, invariably widens out as we get farther from the stomach and come to what is called the colon, and to a kind of caecal dilatation.
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As is reasonably well known, lagomorphs practice refection – that is, they have to ‘rescue’ nutrients from their digested food by ingesting their own caecal pellets (they therefore only produce dry droppings once the food has been through the system twice).
Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006
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This applies particularly to the caecal microflora.
Archive 2008-07-01 Thatsnews 2008
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This applies particularly to the caecal microflora.
Protexin - Probiotics. Pets need them, too! Thatsnews 2008
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A few old fecal pellets and caecal piles, but not many.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2005
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Found recent fecal and caecal droppings, as well as tracks from that morning, so the grouse had been there.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2003
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Grouse pellets and caecal piles were thick in one small part of the flat, along with a scattering of weathered feathers.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2002
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Lots of chicken scat and tracks, and caecal droppings.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2001
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