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Definition of "caecum" []

  • Variant of cecum. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "caecum" in a sentence
  • "The caecum is a branch or diverticulum of the intestine, ending in a cul-de-sac, and is extremely long in many of the lower vegetable-feeding mammals."
  • "The caecum is the enlarged appendix (although it would be more accurate to say our appendix is a residual caecum) of birds, and grouse regularly empty theirs, leaving small green cowpies wherever they've been, which quickly turn into small black cowpies upon exposure to air."
  • "The caecum is a large blind pouch that has a capacity of about seven gallons."