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What is a caecum?

What is a caecum? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (anatomy) A blind pouch connected to the large intestine between the ileum and the colon.
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This is an alternative way of using the intestine from the caecum, or blind gut, of the pig.
Decreases in ovary weight and increases in adrenal, caecum and spleen weight and ALT occurred at all doses.
In other species, an expanded region of the first part of the large intestine, the caecum, serves a similar function.
The midgut eventually develops into distal duodenum, jejunum, ileum, caecum, appendix, ascending colon, and proximal two thirds of the transverse colon.
If a caecum casing is used, the small wooden stick is not always present as the caecum is naturally closed at one end.
The stuffing is fed slowly into the casing, and pressed into the bladder or caecum.

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