【医】 盲肠

[ noun ]
the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens
<noun.body>
the appendix is an offshoot of the cecum

Gut \Gut\, n. [OE. gut, got, AS. gut, prob. orig., a channel,
and akin to ge['o]tan to pour. See {FOUND} to cast.]
1. A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso.

2. An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the
enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.

3. One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a
sheep, used for various purposes. See {Catgut}.

4. The sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin
its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a
thread. This, when dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used
as the snood of a fish line.

{Blind gut}. See {C[AE]cum}, n.
(b) .

caecum \cae"cum\, n.; pl. {C[ae]cums}, L. {C[ae]ca}. [L. caecus
blind, invisible, concealed.] (Anat.)
(a) A cavity open at one end, as the blind end of a canal or
duct.
(b) The blind part of the large intestine beyond the entrance
of the small intestine; -- called also the {blind gut}.
[Also spelled {cecum}.]

Note: The c[ae]cum is comparatively small in man, and ends in
a slender portion, the vermiform appendix; but in
herbivorous mammals it is often as large as the rest of
the large intestine. In fishes there are often numerous
intestinal c[ae]ca.