caecum

How to use caecum in a sentence

• He also recognised and figured the great prolongation backwards of the embryo-sac as an empty, absorbent caecum.

  Makers of British Botany; a collection of biographies by living botanists | Various

• In the region of the yolk-stalk it is somewhat enlarged and ends in a blind sac like a caecum.

  Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator | Albert M. Reese

• Dorsal to the gizzard the section cuts the so-called caecum, ce, a little nearer its anterior end than is shown in figure 7.

  Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator | Albert M. Reese

• The mouth leads into the buccal cavity, on the ventral side of which opens the radular caecum.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 | Various

• The stomach is complex, and the intestine simple, and only in some species provided with a small caecum.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 | Various