The appendix is also called the vermiform appendix because of its wormlike (vermiform) shape. From Wordnik.com. [appendix] Reference
With respect to the alimentary canal, I have met with an account of only a single rudiment, namely the vermiform appendage of the caecum. From Wordnik.com. [Darwin and the vermiform appendix - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Darwin and the vermiform appendix - The Panda's Thumb. From Wordnik.com. [Darwin and the vermiform appendix - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Continue reading “Darwin and the vermiform appendix”. From Wordnik.com. [The Panda's Thumb: PZ Myers Archives] Reference
Colony vermiform prolongation oxygen depletion destruction. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
Darwin and the vermiform appendix is the next entry in this blog. From Wordnik.com. [Halobacterium salinarum - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Darwin and the vermiform appendix was the previous entry in this blog. From Wordnik.com. [Edmund Scientific selling pseudoscience? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
For instance, this chart will help you locate vermiform appendix pains. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
A scurvy, vermiform scug with a serpentine twinkle in his solitary eye. From Wordnik.com. [on writing by stephen king] Reference
According to evolutionary theory, the vermiform appendix is a vestigial caecum. From Wordnik.com. [ideonexus.com » 2006 » April] Reference
The animals are up to 4 cm long, vermiform worm-shaped, and covered by locomotory cilia. From Wordnik.com. [The Panda's Thumb: November 2006 Archives] Reference
There it is, to be reckoned with, like the coccyx, the pineal eye, and the vermiform appendix. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Utopia] Reference
He was born without prepuce, without vermiform appendix-and apparently without a conscience. \par. From Wordnik.com. [Time Enough For Love]
The vermiform appendix is a slimy dead-end sac that hangs between the small and large intestines. From Wordnik.com. [quote out of context | clusterflock] Reference
The stem at one extremity is truncate, but at the other is terminated by a vermiform fleshy appendage. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
May 28, 2008 at 4:11 am u doesnt haz 2 do this, maus . we likes u just teh way u r-vermiform tayle n all. From Wordnik.com. [humidittee - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Afterward, we lay in a pleasantly vermiform tangle, the only light in the room a faint glow from the banked hearth. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
I suppose that when I was built from the data, the data provided for that useless human organ, the vermiform appendix. From Wordnik.com. [Project Pope]
It is as irreconcilable with the modern system of dogmas as ever were geologic strata and vermiform appendix with the preceding system. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
The only case of perforation of the vermiform appendix that I heard of, one under the care of Mr. Stonham, died of peritoneal septicæmia. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
And chitterlings -- the excised vermiform appendix of the cow. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Burlesques] Reference
Below his heart he has only a stomach and a vermiform appendix. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Burlesques] Reference
Form changeable, from short, sac-like to elongate and vermiform. From Wordnik.com. [Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901] Reference
Outer face without decorations; inner with large vermiform figures. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 307-428] Reference
Capitalism, Jonathan, is the vermiform appendix of the social organism. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg] Reference
It has been fully proved since to be as useless an appendage as the vermiform. From Wordnik.com. [Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897] Reference
College of Surgeons; and you shall relieve royal persons of their, vermiform appendix. From Wordnik.com. [The Magician] Reference
But already this was becoming a vermiform appendix, and the nineteenth century did away with it. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Gentleman] Reference
When a man suffers from such a disease as appendicitis, he does not talk about the "wickedness" of the vermiform appendix. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg] Reference
But to return to matters of importance, I should be very happy to see the proofs of your paper upon the vermiform appendix. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Red Lamp] Reference
He then re-exchanged the Dollars for sustenance, raiment, pleasure, and operations for the removal of the vermiform appendix. From Wordnik.com. [John Jones's Dollar] Reference
In some mammals, like the rabbit, the blind gut is the bulkiest structure in the body, and bears the vermiform appendix at its far end. From Wordnik.com. [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference
The next species is smaller and more vermiform, with acute compressed claws, a shorter tail, and no crest, and of more scansorial habits. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
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