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A narrow, elongated tube closed at one end, extending from the cecum (a blind pocket off the first part of the large intestine). The appendix (see ...



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Junction of the human ileum and colon, showing the cecum and vermiform appendix. (From C. K. Weichert, Anatomy of the Chordates, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, 1970)
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