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CECAL APPENDAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cecal appendage mean? 

CECAL APPENDAGE (noun)
  The noun CECAL APPENDAGE has 1 sense:

1. a vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the cecum and that resembles a small pouchplay

  Familiarity information: CECAL APPENDAGE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CECAL APPENDAGE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the cecum and that resembles a small pouch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

appendix; cecal appendage; vermiform appendix; vermiform process

Hypernyms ("cecal appendage" is a kind of...):

appendage; outgrowth; process (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant)

Holonyms ("cecal appendage" is a part of...):

blind gut; caecum; cecum (the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens)


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