vermiform appendix

English

Intestinal tract, with the vermiform appendix highlighted.

Noun

vermiform appendix (plural vermiform appendices or vermiform appendixes)

1. (anatomy) An organ consisting of a blind tube projecting from the caecum. Of disputed function (if any), it is known for sometimes causing inflammation (appendicitis) in humans.

   Synonyms: appendix, vermiformis

Derived terms

• appendectomy
• appendicectomy
• appendicitis

 

Translations

blind tube projecting from the caecum

• Albanian: zorrë qorre f
• Arabic: اَلزَّائِدَة اَلدُّودِيَّة f (az-zāʔida d-dūdiyya), اَلْمُصْرَان اَلْأَعْوَر m (al-muṣrān al-ʔaʕwar), زَائِدَة دُودِيَّة f (zāʔida(t) dūdiyya)

  Egyptian Arabic: الزايدة الدودية f (e-zayda e-dudeya), المصران الأعور m (el muṣraan el ʔaʕwar)

• Armenian: որդանման ելուն (ordanman elun)
• Asturian: apéndiz (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: kor bağırsaq
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: апендыкс m (apjendyks), чэрвепадобны адростак сляпой кішкі m (červjepadóbny adróstak sljapój kiški)
• Bulgarian: сля́по черво́ n (sljápo červó)
• Catalan: apèndix vermiforme (ca) m, apèndix (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 闌尾／阑尾 (zh) (lánwěi)

• Czech: slepé střevo (cs) n, apendix (cs) m
• Danish: blindtarm (da) c
• Dutch: blindedarm (nl), wormvormig aanhangsel n
• Esperanto: apendico
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: umpilisäke (fi)
• French: appendice iléo-cæcal (fr) m, appendice vermiculaire (fr) m, appendice (fr) m
• Galician: apéndice (gl) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Blinddarm (de) m, Appendix (de) m, Wurmfortsatz (de) m
• Greek: σκωληκοειδής απόφυση (el) f (skolikoeidís apófysi), απόφυση (el) f (apófysi)
• Hebrew: תוספתן (he) m (toseftán), תוספתן (he) m (tosaftán)
• Hindi: परिशिष्ट (hi) m (pariśiṣṭ)
• Hungarian: vakbél (hu), féregnyúlvány (hu)
• Icelandic: botnlangi (is) m, botnlangatota f
• Indonesian: apendiks (id), umbai cacing (id), usus buntu (id)
• Irish: aipindic phéistchruthach f, aipindic f
• Italian: appendice (it) f
• Japanese: 虫垂 (ja) (ちゅうすい, chūsui), 盲腸 (ja) (もうちょう, mōcho) (colloquial)
• Kazakh: соқырішек (soqyrışek)
• Khmer: ខ្នែងពោះវៀន (khnaeng pŭəh viən)
• Korean: 충수(蟲垂) (ko) (chungsu), 맹장 (ko) (maengjang)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: rûviya zêde (ku) f

• Latin: appendix f
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: сле́по цре́во n (slépo crévo)
• Malayalam: വിരരൂപ പരിശോഷിക (virarūpa pariśōṣika)
• Maltese: il-musrana l-għamja f
• Maori: weu whēkau, hiku whēkau
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: achʼííʼ bitsʼániʼnísą́
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: blindtarm m, appendiks m

  Nynorsk: blindtarm m, appendiks m

• Persian: آپاندیس (fa) (âpândis)
• Polish: wyrostek robaczkowy (pl) m, wyrostek (pl) m
• Portuguese: apêndice vermiforme (pt) m, apêndice cecal (pt) m, apêndice (pt) m
• Romanian: apendice (ro) n
• Russian: червеобра́зный отро́сток m (červeobráznyj otróstok), аппе́ндикс (ru) m (appéndiks)
• Samoan: please add this translation if you can
• Scottish Gaelic: aipeandaig f
• Slovak: červovitý prívesok m, apendix m
• Slovene: slepič (sl) m
• Spanish: apéndice vermiforme (es) m, apéndice (es) m
• Swedish: blindtarm (sv) n, appendix (sv) ?
• Tagalog: malabulating hugpong, hugpong
• Tamil: குடல்வால் (ta) (kuṭalvāl)
• Thai: ไส้ติ่ง (th) (sâi-dtìng)
• Tibetan: རྒྱུ་ལྷག (rgyu lhag, literally “leftover intestine”)
• Tongan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: kör bağırsak (tr), apandis (tr)
• Ukrainian: апе́ндикс (uk) (apéndyks)
• Uzbek: dirihablʼ
• Vietnamese: ruột thừa (vi)
• Volapük: kekun (vo)
• Welsh: coluddyn crog m, pendics m