Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A saclike cavity with only one opening.
- n. Anatomy The large blind pouch forming the beginning of the large intestine. Also called blind gut.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of caecum.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The caecum, the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Latin (intestīnum) caecum, blind (intestine), neuter of caecus, blind. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The doctor begins the procedure by inflating the colon with air until the cecum is distended.”
“The cecum is the blind pouch in the intestine, the appendix is a cecum and all of the stuff looks like food matter or poo.”
“The cecum is the gate-way between the large and small intestines.”
“The cecum is a large, blind pouch, one of the shortest of the several divisions in the continuity of the intestinal canal, which begins where the small intestine ends, and ends where the large intestine begins.”
“The latter are produced in a region of the rabbit's digestive tract called the cecum, a blind-end pouch located at the junction of the small and large intestines.”
“No less than Charles Darwin first suggested that the appendix was a vestigial organ from an ancestor that ate leaves, theorizing that it was the evolutionary remains of a larger structure, called a cecum, which once was used by now-extinct predecessors for digesting food.”
“Chemicals that the body doesn’t need all that much, such as some excess vitamins, water, salt, and fats, are not absorbed and are passed along to a reservoir located between the small and large intestines called the cecum pronounced sea-come.”
“To confirm proper placement of the catheter, we will inject contrast dye through the catheter, using liveX-ray (fluoroscopy) to make sure the dye travels into the cecum.”
“A catheter is then threaded through a special hollow needle into the cecum.”
“The doctor inserts a small needle through the skin into the cecum, and then attaches the bowel to the abdominal wall with two stitches.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cecum’.
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February 2011
mirepoix, rubylith, torogoz, cecum, icterus, leptospirosis, antigenic, syncytium, electrophoresis, perivascular, glial, parenchyma and 9 more...
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May 2010 (Wedding Month!!)
Just the words I meet this month, starting with cecum.
cecum, compersion, antilogy, fantods, dord, flam, ipsedixitism, quartine, glycation, neoteny, desiccation, hypovolemia and 17 more...
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Outlander series words
A place for me to keep words I found (or found anew) while reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. (Culling my enormous "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list.)
gralloch, yeuk, corpse-candle, saprophytic, baldachin, Kermanshah, celandine, tynchal, quaich, mesentery, basidium, dittany and 244 more...
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What David Foster Wallace circled in ...
ablative, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, ailanthus, aleatory, alfresco, algolagnia and 474 more...
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What David Foster Wallace Circled in ...
http://www.slate.com/id/2250784/
ablative absolute, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, aleatory, ailanthus, alfresco, algolagnia and 482 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear "I had my eyes closed, concentrating on touch alone. The cecum had to be right under my fingers, that was the curve of the large intestine I could feel, inert but live, like a sleeping snake."
—Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (New York: Bantam Dell, 2005), 437 Feb 1, 2010