Cecum

Word CECUM
Character 5
Hyphenation cecum
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Definitions and meanings of "Cecum"

What do we mean by cecum?

The large pouch at the beginning of the large intestine, located in the lower right-hand side of the abdomen. noun

A sac or bodily cavity with only one opening. noun

See cœcum. noun

See cæcum. noun

The caecum, the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens. noun

Alternative spelling of caecum. noun

The cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens noun

A blind pouch connected to the large intestine between the ileum and the colon.

Or caecum; an anatomical cul-de-sac, that in which the large intestine begins Urban Dictionary

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The word "cecum" in example sentences

The doctor begins the procedure by inflating the colon with air until the cecum is distended. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ DNLee (2008)

The cecum is the gate-way between the large and small intestines. ❋ John Henry Tilden (1895)

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. ❋ John Henry Tilden (1895)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Michael F. Roizen (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A catheter is then threaded through a special hollow needle into the cecum. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The doctor inserts a small needle through the skin into the cecum, and then attaches the bowel to the abdominal wall with two stitches. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The tube is a catheter (a thin tube) placed into the cecum, the first part of the large bowel (in the lower right abdomen). ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Excretion of bisphenol A-glucuronide into the small intestine and deconjugation in the cecum of the rat." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Lost a Titelist sponge somewhere behind the cecum. ❋ Aka TBTAM (2008)

The enlarged cecum in most of these species is used as a fermentation chamber, in which hard-to-digest food resides while resident bacteria help break it down. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In many cases where the cecum is very large, that function is digestive — this is an area of the gut that can be expanded into a fermentation chamber. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If the appendixes in marsupials and euarchontoglires are actually homologous, that should imply that their last common ancestor had a cecum/appendix…and the pattern is explained by widespread and frequent loss of the organ. ❋ Unknown (2009)

the [stool] is [kept] in cecum ❋ Zvi Pasko (2005)

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