blind gut

American  

noun

1. the cecum.

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blind gut British  

noun

1. informal another name for the caecum

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Etymology

Origin of blind gut

First recorded in 1585–95

Example Sentences

If he took the wrong furrow, he could not cross from one blind gut into another, nor hope to meet the fugitive at any future turning.

From The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories by Foote, Mary Hallock

The intestinal peculiarities of this section consist of a very large cæcum or blind gut, which is small in the cats and wholly absent in the bears, and in the very long intestines.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage

The fine membrane called goldbeater’s skin, used for making up the shoder and mould, is the outer coat of the caecum or blind gut of the ox.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various

The blind gut, answered doctor Slop, lies betwixt the Ilion and Colon—— In a man? said my father.

From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Sterne, Laurence

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 The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by Thomson, J. Arthur