caecum

English

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Alternative forms

• cæcum
• cecum

Etymology

Latin (ininum) caecum ‘blind gut’, translation of Greek τυφλόν ἔντερον.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsiːkəm/

Noun

caecum (plural caeca)

1. (anatomy) A blind pouch connected to the large intestine between the ileum and the colon.

   • 1970: After a preliminary course in anatomy it was found that caecum and transverse colon also provided excellent sites for excitation. — JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition

Synonyms

• blind gut

Derived terms

• caecal
• caecally

Translations

blind pouch connected to the large intestine

Bulgarian: сляпо черво (bg) n., апандисит (bg) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 盲腸 (zh), 盲肠 (zh) (mángcháng) Finnish: umpisuoli (fi) French: cæcum (fr) m. Georgian: ბრმა ნაწლავი (ka) (brma naclavi) German: Blinddarm (de) m.

Icelandic: botnristill (is) m. Japanese: 盲腸 (ja) (もうちょう, mōchō) Portuguese: ceco (pt) m. Romanian: cec (ro) n., cecum (ro) n. Russian: слепая кишка (ru) (slepája kišká) f. Swedish: blindtarm (sv) c. Turkish: kör bağırsak (tr), çekum (tr)

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Latin

Adjective

caecum

1. nominative neuter singular of caecus