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Definition of caecum in English: caecum(US cecum) nounPlural caeca ˈsiːkəmˈsikəm Anatomy A pouch connected to the junction of the small and large intestines. Example sentencesExamples - The digestive tract was removed from each specimen and dissected it into the upper digestive tract, gizzard, small intestine, ceca, large intestine, liver, and pancreas.
- Total digestive tract mass was the summed masses of the upper digestive tract, gizzard, small intestine, ceca, and large intestine.
- In the right lower quadrant you are feeling mainly for the terminal ileum, the cecum, and the ascending colon, and for the descending colon in the left.
- The appendix, a worm-like appendage of dubious usefulness, usually hangs straight down from the first portion of the large intestine, the cecum.
- The portion of the large intestine - between the cecum and transverse colon - that starts on the right side of the abdomen and moves up toward the liver.
Derivatives adjective ˈsiːkəl Anatomy The artery may also arise from the ileal, posterior cecal, or anterior cecal branch of the ileocecal artery. Example sentencesExamples - Through a midline laparotomy, the cecal and ileocecal junction was identified.
- At surgery, 24 patients had perforation, and three required cecal resection.
- The absence of any upper-abdominal pain, nausea, and cramps suggests that the melena is of cecal or right colonic origin.
- The ‘volcano sign’ described endoscopically is seen as a ‘vortical fold’ pattern on barium studies, which is the concentric ring appearance of the cecal mucosal folds as they approach the obstructed appendiceal orifice.
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin (intestinum) caecum 'blind (gut)', translation of Greek tuphlon enteron. Definition of cecum in US English: cecum(British caecum) nounˈsikəmˈsēkəm Anatomy A pouch connected to the junction of the small and large intestines. Example sentencesExamples - In the right lower quadrant you are feeling mainly for the terminal ileum, the cecum, and the ascending colon, and for the descending colon in the left.
- Total digestive tract mass was the summed masses of the upper digestive tract, gizzard, small intestine, ceca, and large intestine.
- The digestive tract was removed from each specimen and dissected it into the upper digestive tract, gizzard, small intestine, ceca, large intestine, liver, and pancreas.
- The appendix, a worm-like appendage of dubious usefulness, usually hangs straight down from the first portion of the large intestine, the cecum.
- The portion of the large intestine - between the cecum and transverse colon - that starts on the right side of the abdomen and moves up toward the liver.
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin (intestinum) caecum ‘blind (gut)’, translation of Greek tuphlon enteron. |