blind gut

Noun
Synonyms: cecumcaecumblind gut

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens“the appendix is an offshoot of the cecum”Synonyms: cecumcaecumblind gut
Advertisement

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Gut \Gut\, n. [OE. gut, got, AS. gut, prob. orig., a channel, and akin to ge['o]tan to pour. See FOUND to cast.] [1913 Webster]

1.A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso. [1913 Webster]

2.An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails. [1913 Webster]

3.One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See Catgut. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Blind gut. See Caecum, n. (b) . [1913 Webster]

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.] [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Advertisement