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

For non-cavers who read it, the sensation of being trapped in Mother Earth's vermiform appendix is persuasively real, and the impulse to run gasping into the open air is strong.

From Time Magazine Archive

It may interest your readers to know�though of course this is quite apart from interest in preservation of the species�that koalas are unique in having a vermiform appendix of six to eight feet in length.

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The apostrophe, she hinted, is about as useful as the vermiform appendix.

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The vermiform appendix ... is a small tubelike growth which projects from the large intestine near the spot where the large and small intestines meet.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dining rooms are the vermiform appendix of American architecture.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson