| NOUN | cecum | ceca |
| SYNO | blind gut | caecum | cecum |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- Tapirs have simple stomachs and are hindgut fermenters that ferment digested food in a large cecum.
- The ileocolic vein is a vein which drains the ileum, colon, and cecum.
- Not many parasites have been recorded from the grayish mouse opossum. The pinworm "Tlacuatzoxyuris simpsoni" (Nematoda, Oxyuridae), a parasite of the cecum, has been described in 2019.
- The identifiable landmarks in the cecum are the appendiceal orifice—which is a curvilinear indent indicating the location of the appendix from the lumen of the bowel—and the ileocecal valve, which appears as a puckering in the most distal fold of the cecum.
- The cecum is the first section of the large intestine.
- During colonoscopy, the ileocecal valve is used, along with the appendiceal orifice, in the identification of the cecum.
- The term "cecum" comes from Latin "(intestinum) caecum", literally 'blind intestine', in the sense 'blind gut' or 'cul de sac'.
- The substrates utilized by the cecum have either passed along the entire intestine or are biliary excretion products.
- The foramen cecum marks the end of this division (at about 2.5 cm from the root of the tongue) and the beginning of the terminal sulcus.
- Abdominal distention may occasionally be seen in adult horses in the flank region, if the cecum or large colon is affected.
- This means that most of their digestion takes place in their large intestine and cecum.
- Cecal bascule is a cause of large bowel obstruction where there is folding of the cecum anteriorly over the ascending colon.
- However, in spite of the terminology, colonic fermenters such as horses make extensive use of the cecum to break down cellulose.
- Flying foxes have simple digestive tracts; the time between ingestion and excretion is as short as 12 minutes. They lack both a cecum and an appendix.
- The appendix (or vermiform appendix; also cecal caecal appendix; vermix; or vermiform process) is a finger-like, blind-ended tube connected to the cecum, from which it develops in the embryo.
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