The appendix is an offshoot of the cecum. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The doctor begins the procedure by inflating the colon with air until the cecum is distended. From Wordnik.com. [Percutaneous Cecostomy Tube Placement] Reference
The cecum is the gate-way between the large and small intestines. From Wordnik.com. [Appendicitis] Reference
The cecum is the blind pouch in the intestine, the appendix is a cecum and all of the stuff looks like food matter or poo. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference
Lost a Titelist sponge somewhere behind the cecum. From Wordnik.com. [Grand Rounds, Vol 4, No 42 - The Seinfeld Edition] Reference
Her appendix was tucked behind the cecum and had not ruptured. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
The large intestine is divided into the cecum, colon, and rectum. From Wordnik.com. [large intestine] Reference
He had a suspicious lesion in the cecum and surgery was recommended. From Wordnik.com. [Now This Takes Balls] Reference
A catheter is then threaded through a special hollow needle into the cecum. From Wordnik.com. [Percutaneous Cecostomy Tube Placement] Reference
Some species had something that clearly looked like an appendix, but didn't have a cecum. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution of the appendix? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The small intestine joins with the large intestine through a small appendage called the cecum. From Wordnik.com. [by request 2 « raincoaster] Reference
Doctors were successful in reaching the cecum only 81% of the time, even in patients with clean bowels. From Wordnik.com. ['Take a Deep Breath...'] Reference
At first I thought the pale white organ was its heart, based on shape, but now I think it is it's cecum. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference
Others had a a cecum that gradually tapered into a slender tube, lacking that abrupt change in diameter. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution of the appendix? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
One of them may occupy the cecum, another the transverse colon, and possibly a third the sigmoid flexure. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
Large amounts of fibrous vegetation is decomposed in the cecum, where bacteria break down cellulose particles. From Wordnik.com. [15 Agouti] Reference
But now that I think it is the cecum, then these could be intestinal worms, which are very common among mammals. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference
In mammals, the cecum expresses Hox paralogs groups 9-11, but the large intestine expresses Hox paralog groups 9-12. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution of the appendix? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Because of an irregularity near the cecum, I was admitted to the hospital for IV antibiotics and further evaluation. From Wordnik.com. [More supporting evidence for the sugar hypothesis | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference
The cecum (pink) is a small pouch that goes nowhere, while the appendix (red) is a slender projection from the cecum. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution of the appendix? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Nope, "we're at the end," he said, pointing out the cecum, a pouch which marks the top portion of the large intestine. From Wordnik.com. ['Take a Deep Breath...'] Reference
The large cecum - the site of enzymatic digestion - serves a function like that of the rumen of sheep, cattle, and goats. From Wordnik.com. [15 Agouti] Reference
The tube is a catheter (a thin tube) placed into the cecum, the first part of the large bowel (in the lower right abdomen). From Wordnik.com. [Percutaneous Cecostomy Tube Placement] Reference
No differences were found in the contents of cecum and colon. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
The cecum (or caecum) is a pouch-like structure of the colon. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
The reader will see how very much like a blind pouch the cecum is. From Wordnik.com. [Appendicitis] Reference
After about twenty-four hours it becomes localized in the region of the cecum. From Wordnik.com. [Appendicitis] Reference
This point of the bowels, the cecum is more endangered from diarrhea than any other. From Wordnik.com. [Appendicitis] Reference
These two occur in the small intestine; a form intermediate in size may also be found in the cecum and colon. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
After constipation is established the efforts at securing evacuations are of such a nature as to irritate the cecum. From Wordnik.com. [Appendicitis] Reference
The constant presence of gas in the bowels becomes more and more menacing to the cecum as the constipation increases. From Wordnik.com. [Appendicitis] Reference
More specifically the appendix is a small extension, or what seems to be an extension, of the large intestine's cecum. From Wordnik.com. [Serendip's Exchange] Reference
Appendix Structure which presumably had a digestive function in some of our ancestors, like the cecum of some herbivores. From Wordnik.com. [The Velvet Hot Tub | Freshest Stories] Reference
Of course, technically there could be no appendicitis without an appendix, but the cecum would become inflamed just as readily. From Wordnik.com. [Appendicitis] Reference
The food from the small intestines the enters into the large intestines, which has three parts the cecum, colon, and the rectum. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
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