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 blind gut 名詞
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 cae·cum n.; pl. Cæcums, L. Cæca   Anat. (a) A cavity open at one end, as the blind end of a canal or duct. (b) The blind part of the large intestine beyond the entrance of the small intestine; -- called also the blind gut. [Also spelled cecum.]
 Note: ☞ The cæcum is comparatively small in man, and ends in a slender portion, the vermiform appendix; but in herbivorous mammals it is often as large as the rest of the large intestine. In fishes there are often numerous intestinal cæca.
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 Gut n.
 1. A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso.
 2. An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.
 3. One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See Catgut.
 4. The sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. This, when dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fish line.
 Blind gut. See Caecum, n. (b).

 blind gut
      n : the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into
          which the ileum opens; "the appendix is an offshoot of
          the cecum" [syn: cecum, caecum]