| 单词 | intestinal caeca |
| 释义 | > as lemmasintestinal caeca 2. With plural cæca: Any blind tube, or tube with one end closed. The intestinal caeca are two long blind tubes connected with the upper part of the large intestine in birds; pyloric caeca, a series of blind tubes, from one to fifty in number, placed immediately behind the pyloric valve in the stomach of most fishes; also the prolongations of the stomach into the rays of starfishes. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > tube or pipe fistula1601 caecum1753 the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > shape > [noun] > tube or canal > with one end closed cul-de-sac1738 caecum1753 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Intestinum The fish kind have in general a great number of these cæca; they are called by the ichthyologists Intestinula cæca. 1844 W. B. Carpenter Animal Physiol. iv. 172 Furnished with one or more little appendages, termed cæca [printed cœca]. 1857 J. G. Wood Common Objects Sea Shore 129 The stomach is assisted by certain supplementary stomachs which run through each ray..cæca as they are called. 1868 P. M. Duncan tr. L. Figuier Insect World Introd. 10 The second are cæca, and larger and less numerous. < as lemmas |
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