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 caecum
 盲腸

 cae·cum /ˈsɪkəm/ 名詞
 盲端,盲腸

 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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 caecum
      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, blind gut]
      [also: caeca (pl)]