Definition of "cecal" []

• Alternative spelling of caecal. (adjective)

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• "Without this knowledge, how can we say with any scientific confidence that the bacterium did not contain within its genome a pre-existing program for the expression of a flagellum waiting to be triggered by an environmental cue like cecal valves in lizards?"
• "The cecal appendix (a through l) or appendix-like structures (m through o) in a variety of mammals."
• "In fact, there is a cluster of genes that are expressed at the cecal/colonic boundary."