caecum

How To Use caecum In A Sentence

• After closing the caecum with a purse string ligature, the loops of intestine were restored to the abdominal cavity.
• For “C”, use a scaphopod, caecum, or dislodged curled-up chiton in profile. MnCSE! - The Panda's Thumb
• The caecum is the enlarged appendix (although it would be more accurate to say our appendix is a residual caecum) of birds, and grouse regularly empty theirs, leaving small green cowpies wherever they've been, which quickly turn into small black cowpies upon exposure to air. Grouse Diary Entry
• The caecum is a large blind pouch that has a capacity of about seven gallons. Common Diseases of Farm Animals
• The blind end of the large intestine, cephalad to the opening of the small intestine, projects forward, dorsal to the gizzard, as a sort of caecum, _ce_, though this structure is generally stated to be wanting in the crocodilia, and is not seen in the next stage. Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator
• Breath hydrogen analysis after oral lactulose containing meals is an easy, non-invasive, bedside test to measure mouth-to-caecum transit time.
• With respect to the alimentary canal, I have met with an account of only a single rudiment, namely the vermiform appendage of the caecum. Darwin and the vermiform appendix - The Panda's Thumb
• The caecum also, though short, is larger than that of carnivorous animals; and even here the orang-outang retains its accustomed similarity. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
• M. Pontedera believes it designed to lubricate the vegetable uterus, and compares the horn-like nectaries of some flowers to the appendicle of the caecum intestinum of animals. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
• One blood sample was taken before endoscopy and the patients then had a colonoscopy to the caecum.