vermiform appendix

noun

Anatomy, Zoology.

a narrow, blind tube protruding from the cecum, having no known useful function, in humans being 3 to 4 inches (8 to 10 centimeters) long and situated in the lower right-hand part of the abdomen.

vermiform appendix

Also called: appendix.��a wormlike pouch extending from the lower end of the caecum in some mammals. In man it is vestigial

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First recorded in 1770–80

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Examples have not been reviewed.

Dining rooms are the vermiform appendix of American architecture.

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Such matters interest the Oxford man quite as little as the question how he comes by a tonsil or a vermiform appendix.

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So buttons, ruffles, and the vermiform appendix of which we hear so much all fall in the category of vestigial structures.

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He will have, perhaps, still more of interest for our time, because he was the first to describe the vermiform appendix.

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"That vermiform appendix craze was all a fad anyhow," said the Bibliomaniac sourly.

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