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coecum

coecum is the alternative form 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 coecum

pluralcoeca

Questions about coecum

What is coecum the alternative form of?
Coecum is the alternative form of caecum.

Words near coecum in the dictionary

  1. Coeburn
  2. coeca
  3. coecal
  4. coecilian
  5. coecilians
  6. coecum
  7. coed
  8. Coed Ely
  9. Coed-talon
  10. Coed-y-cwm
  11. Coedely

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coecum (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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