[
UK
/ɐpˈɛndɪks/
]
[ US /əˈpɛndɪks/ ]
[ US /əˈpɛndɪks/ ]
NOUN
- a vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the cecum and that resembles a small pouch
- supplementary material that is collected and appended at the back of a book
How To Use appendix In A Sentence
- Of course the appendix has always been subject to inflammation, just as it is now, but in former years the disease we call appendicitis bore various names, depending upon the diagnostic skill of the attending physician. Appendicitis
- Drake, in his _Eboracum_, says (p. 7, Appendix), "I have been so frightened with stories of the barguest when I was a child, that I cannot help throwing away an etymology upon it. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
- Champlain appears to be carrying a light arquebus that Paulin-Desormeaux calls a fusil de chasse, a hunting weapon; ibid., 1:184-93; for a more extended discussion, see below, chapter 12, and Appendix L. Champlain's Dream
- The Government still have not come clean about the information revealed in a Select Committee appendix.
- As an example of the kinds of subtle relationships that exist among different explanatory factors, the Appendix reconsiders the 1976 data.
- an addendum can also be referred to as an appendix
- BELGRADE Reuters – A routine appendix operation in Belgrade went badly wrong when two surgeons started fighting and stormed from the operating theater to settle their dispute outside, the daily Politika reported Wednesday. Surgeons leave surgery for a fist fight | YepYep - Your Daily Waste Of Time
- The slightly edematous and hyperemic appendix was removed by laparoscopic surgery.
- When they removed the appendix they found it was gangrenous.
- The problem with "scop" to me is that the reader will tend to think it's pronounced as "skop" - even if you have an appendix/note explaining OE spelling conventions. Archaic terminology in historical fiction