vermiform appendix

American  

noun

Anatomy, Zoology.

1. a narrow, blind tube protruding from the cecum, having no known useful function, in humans being 3 to 4 inches (8 to 10 centimeters) long and situated in the lower right-hand part of the abdomen.

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vermiform appendix British  

noun

1. Also called: appendix.  a wormlike pouch extending from the lower end of the caecum in some mammals. In man it is vestigial

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vermiform appendix Scientific  

/ vûr′mə-fôrm′ /

1. See appendix

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Etymology

Origin of vermiform appendix

First recorded in 1770–80

Example Sentences

Dining rooms are the vermiform appendix of American architecture.

From Literature

Such matters interest the Oxford man quite as little as the question how he comes by a tonsil or a vermiform appendix.

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So buttons, ruffles, and the vermiform appendix of which we hear so much all fall in the category of vestigial structures.

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He will have, perhaps, still more of interest for our time, because he was the first to describe the vermiform appendix.

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"That vermiform appendix craze was all a fad anyhow," said the Bibliomaniac sourly.

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