Definition of "caecal" []

• Of or pertaining to the caecum. (adjective)

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• "Among the complications that become inserted in herbivore guts are things called caecal valves."
• "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."
• "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)."