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What is an appendix?

What is an appendix? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (obsolete in general sense) Something attached to something else; an attachment or accompaniment.
  2. Specifically, a text added to the end of a book or an article, containing information that is important to but is not the main idea of the main text.
  3. (anatomy) The vermiform appendix, an inner organ that can become inflamed.
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This appendix provides evidence of the application of anaptyxis in Old English.
I show, much like Fisher did in the appendix to his 1907 book on the rate of interest, that it can be reduced to a timeless Walrasian model.
Appendicitis is treated by removing the inflamed appendix through an appendectomy.
I found the appendix normal, but next to the appendix there was a caecum which had very strange, greasy patches.
This is a rare tumour that usually affects the appendix or the small intestine.
The inside of the appendix forms a cul-de-sac that usually opens into the large intestine.

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