Usage examples (30)

• In fact, there is a cluster of genes that are expressed at the cecal/colonic boundary.
• The cecal appendix (a through l) or appendix-like structures (m through o) in a variety of mammals.
• This indicates to me that the DNA to code for the cecal valves were already there but were suppressed until the new environment initiated the valve development.
• However, there is also a mention of the formation of new structures, cecal valves, designed to slow the passage of food by creating fermentation chambers in the gut.