Definitions for caecum

caecum cae·cum

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IPA: /ˈsi kəm/

Caecum is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in caecum (accemu).

Definitions for caecum

noun

  1. cecum.
  2. a cul-de-sac, especially that in which the large intestine begins.

Origin of caecum

1715-25; short for Latin intestinum caecum blind gut

Examples for caecum

The caecum seems also to be shorter in the Ground Porcupines.

The caecum is very much shorter, and so is the large intestine.

The pouch is well developed; the stomach not sacculated; a caecum is present (except in Tarsipes).

It has, moreover, no zygoma in the skull, and there is no caecum.

The caecum is small; the pouch is generally absent; the tail generally long and prehensile.

The caecum when short has no longitudinal bands; the liver has a Spigelian lobe.

The intestine has both a duodeno-jejunal flexure and a caecum.

Similar folds, as already stated, occur in the caecum, but do not extend as far as its blind end.

The caecum is never large, and may be, as in the Bear tribe, completely absent.

This section of the colon is lined with rugae precisely like those which are found in the caecum.

Word Value for caecum
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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