The cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens.
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Examples for "cecum "
1 Then labeled tumors were orthotopically implanted into the cecum of nude mice.
2 After about twenty-four hours it becomes localized in the region of the cecum .
3 The cecum is the gate-way between the large and small intestines.
4 The sporadic type is known to occur mostly at the ileum and cecum .
5 An endoscopic stapling device was used to transect the base of the cecum .
1 The blind gut was setting itself right; it was becoming absorbed.
2 And in his imagination the desired correction of his blind gut came about.
3 There was some little thing, a minute little something, in the blind gut .
4 He started thinking again about his blind gut and the possibility of putting it right.
5 It's not a matter of the blind gut or the kidney but of life and .
1 Wherever possible milking of a phytobezoar to the caecum should be performed.
2 S, cut end of duodenum; C, caecum ; R, cut end of rectum.
3 Fermentation and cellulose digestion occur in the caecum and double colon.
4 Insufficient tagging occurred mostly in the ascending colon and the caecum .
5 S, cut end of duodenum; R, cut end of rectum; C, caecum ; CL, colon.
6 The atrophied end of the caecum is the famous rudimentary organ, the vermiform appendix.
7 Its internal opening into the caecum is about 1 in.
8 It usually involves ileum and caecum , and involvement of rectum has rarely been reported.
9 They're about to start a lecture about the caecum and its role in colic.'
10 The number of bifidobacteria in the caecum and selected meat traits of broilers were determined.
11 At present, faeces are commonly sampled from live animals, while caecum is most commonly sampled from terminated animals.
12 Introduction: The authors present a case review of a localized Peutz-Jeghers syndrome of the caecum , emulating a carcinoma.
13 The dog-fox's caecum is so different from the vixen's that Gray would have made distinct genera of them.
14 The taeniae in the caecum all lead to the vermiform appendix, and form a useful guide to this structure.
15 S, cut end of duodenum; R, cut end of rectum; C, caecum ; C2, accessory caecum ; C.L, colic loop of hind-gut.
16 Next, in most birds, the caeca when present are paired, whereas in most mammals there is only a single caecum .
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