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caeca

Syllables: cae·ca/ˈsiːkə/

caeca is the plural of caecum.

Meaning of caecum

Noun

caecum (plural caecums or caeca)

  1. A cavity open at one end (such as the blind end of a duct), especially a blind pouch connected to the large intestine between the ileum and the colon.
    • After a preliminary course in anatomy it was found that caecum and transverse colon also provided excellent sites for excitation.1970, J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition
    Synonyms:
    blind gut

Forms of caeca

alternative formceca

Phrases with caeca

Words that rhyme with caeca

Questions about caeca

What is caeca the plural of?
Caeca is the plural of caecum.
How do you pronounce caeca?
Caeca is pronounced /ˈsiːkə/.

Words near caeca in the dictionary

  1. Cadwells
  2. cady
  3. Cadys
  4. CAE
  5. caec-
  6. caeca
  7. caecal
  8. caecally
  9. caecectomies
  10. caecectomy
  11. Caecias

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Adapted from Wiktionary: caeca (page history and authors); caecum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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