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Caecal

Caecal \C[ae]"cal\, a. (Anat.)

  1. Of or pertaining to the c[ae]cum, or blind gut.

  2. Having the form of a c[ae]cum, or bag with one opening; baglike; as, the c[ae]cal extremity of a duct. [1913 Webster] ||

Wiktionary
caecal

a. Of or pertaining to the caecum. alt. Of or pertaining to the caecum.

WordNet
caecal

adj. of or like a cecum [syn: cecal]

Usage examples of "caecal".

We have nothing to do but to make this ball glance from that ball and hit that other ball, and to knock that ball with this ball into a certain caecal sacculus or diverticulum which our professional friend calls a pocket.

On this account they should not be eaten when at all old and hard by persons of slow digestion, because apt to lodge in the intestines, and to become entangled in their caecal pouch, or in its appendix.