vermiform

[ UK /vˈɜːmɪfˌɔːm/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. resembling a worm; long and thin and cylindrical
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How To Use vermiform In A Sentence

  • While burrowing, caecilians employ concertina locomotion, lateral undulation, and vermiform locomotion.
  • Methods The paste way of transparent offset paper was used to examine vermiform mite in some college students and its cause analysed.
  • The best known members of this small group are the openings through the abdominal wall, which, originally placed at the strongest and safest position in the quadrupedal attitude, are now, in the erect attitude, at the weakest and most dangerous, and furnish opportunity for those serious and sometimes fatal escapes of portions of the intestines which we call hernia; the tonsils; and our friend the _appendix vermiformis_. Preventable Diseases
  • Prescott 12.195 reports a case of what he calls fatal colic from the lodgment of a chocolate-nut in the appendix; and Noyes 12.196 relates an instance of death in a man of thirty-one attributed to the presence of a raisin-seed in the vermiform appendix. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • As Clark cannot interview himself to the extent of half a column for the Morning Bazoo without getting his goozle entangled in the skein of his own intorted argument, so the Advertiser cannot grind out an editorial of equal length without getting hoist with its own logical sequence, split from vermiform appendix to occipitofrontalis by the recoil of its own syllogisms. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
  • 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
  • Continue reading “Darwin and the vermiform appendix”. The Panda's Thumb: PZ Myers Archives
  • After examining the opening of these traces, it is tempting to assign their origin to the behavior of vermiform borers such as annelids, sipunculids, or phoronids.
  • The digestive system of grass and herbage-eating animals includes a large organ next to the secum, the vermiform appendix, in which cellulose is digested.
  • Another phylum, the Pogonophora, are also vermiform animals with a trochophore larva.
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