The intestine gave forth a much larger diverticulum or caecum than that now existing.
The caecum is enlarged, and may even, while all the other guts are empty, contain hard solid faeces.
Writers do not notice the tendency of the caecum to be diseased, or remark upon its disposition to exhibit signs of alteration; but the fact being so obvious, I wonder it should have escaped observation.
The caecum is no more than a small appendage--a little sac attached to the main tube; it has but one opening, and that is very diminutive.
In the dog which has died of intestinal disease, the caecum is almost invariably found enlarged and inflamed.
Fermentation and cellulose digestion occur in the caecum and double colon.
It is found in the caecum attached to the wall by the hair-like portion.
The caecum is a large blind pouch that has a capacity of about seven gallons.
The caecum hangs downward vertically and the appendix arises from the funnel-shaped apex of the pouch.
Mid- and end-gut, with ileo-colic junction and caecumlaid open.
It is reasonable to suppose that the system of projecting mucous folds and reduplications encountered in the colon beyond the caecum have a similar physiological import.
The caecum in this preparation has not yet completed its rotation and still turns its concavity upwards and to the right, with the apex imbedded among the terminal convolutions of the ileum.
The caecum is found nearly in the median line imbedded among the surrounding coils of the small intestine, which by their rapid increase have pushed the pouch cephalad nearly into contact with the caudal surface of the liver.
The general shape and trend of the foetal caecum is preserved.
The caecum of the Phascolomyidae or wombats, resembles, in its general structure and in the presence of a typical vermiform appendix, very closely the corresponding parts of the alimentary canal in man and the anthropoid apes.
A second adenoid appendix, representing the globular saccus lymphaticus of the rabbit, is derived from the caecum at the ileo-colic junction.
In place of the usual double avian caecum a single pouch is found in a few forms, namely in the Herons (Fig.
Proximal branch of the same vessel, turning downward to caecum and root of appendix.
Caecum in situ lifted up to show vertical course of appendix, situated behind caecum and ascending colon.
In all known Pantopoda the size of the body is quite minute as compared with that of the limbs: the alimentary canal sends a long caecum into each leg (cf.
It was formerly included under the term "perityphlitis"--that is, inflammation connected with the caecumor blind portion of the large intestine.
It is a red worm, about the fourth of an inch long, and inhabits the caecum and ascending colon, in which it was found in hundreds together.
Not unfrequently, before the sudden attack of impermeability of the bowel the patient has had repeated attacks of typhlitis, and has been conscious for a long time of the presence of a tumor in the region of the caecum or colon.
Stony concretions or enteroliths are found generally in the caecum or in the sacculi of the colon, very rarely in the small intestines.
The caecum in paratyphlitis is mostly empty or is filled with gas, whose presence is recognized by tympanitic resonance on lighter percussion.
At the same time there is upon pressure over the whole abdomen more or less tenderness, which soon comes to be especially localized at the caecum or sigmoid flexure.
Its cavity communicates with the cavity of the caecum by a small orifice which is at times guarded by a valvular fold of mucous membrane, while its free closed end terminates abruptly in a blunt point.
The caecum is the favorite resting-place of foreign bodies.
The intestinal peculiarities of this section consist of a very large caecum or blind gut, which is small in the cats and wholly absent in the bears, and in the very long intestines.
The stomach is simple--the intestinal canal very long and caecum enormous.
None of them (except Tupaia) have a caecum (this genus has been most exhaustively described in all its osteological details by Dr.
They are plantigrade, and are without a caecum or blind gut; the skull, however it may approach to a viverrine or feline shape, has still marked arctoid characteristics.
The stomach is simple; the intestines about eight times the length of the body, and the caecum is large and sacculated.
Caecum 10 inches long along its greater curvature, and not sacculated.
Caecum with dilated end; liver more divided than in C.
The caecum (6 inches) and intestines (22 inches) are absolutely and relatively longer than in any other New World Monkey.
The large intestine is not convoluted upon itself as in so many of the Lemurs, nor is there a caecum at the junction of its smaller and larger portions.
The transverse portion of the great intestine is convoluted in a remarkable manner upon itself, the caecum also being very large.
The greater part of the body-cavity is taken up with the liver, from the middle part of which the caecum and the vermiform appendix protrude.
In man, and most of the apes, only the first portion of the caecum is wide; the blind end-part of it is very narrow, and seems later to be merely a useless appendage of the former.
The atrophied end of the caecum is the famous rudimentary organ, the vermiform appendix.
Immediately behind this there is a sac-like growth, which enlarges into the caecum (Figure 2.
Examples are recorded in which the intestinecaecum formed the contents of a right inguinal hernia.
I have seen a few cases in which the caecum formed the right crural hernia.
The caecum and the sigmoid flexure of the colon occupy, R R*, the right and left iliac regions.
The caecum and colon laid open to show the ileo-caecal valve.
If no operation has been made, insert a trocar into the caecum to relieve the gas pressure, then inject normal fluid into the same place, using sufficient fluid to neutralize the process of putrefactive fermentation.
The caecum is the commencement of the large intestines, it is a large blind pouch situated below the ileo caecal valve.
The caecum is held mostly in place by the folds of the peritoneum.
In all but Nautilus the caecum lies near the stomach, and may be very capacious--much larger than the stomach in Loligo vulgaris--or elongated into a spiral coil.
The stomach is simple, and there is no caecumto the intestine, although this is present in the opossums.
Caecum very long and dilated, with numerous folds.
The caecum is so large in the rabbit that it must almost certainly be of considerable importance.
In birds and in mammals this tissue may be so greatly increased as to transform the caecum into a solid or nearly solid sac, the calibre of which is for the most part smaller than that of the unmodified caecum.
In Hyla and Pipa there is a smallcaecum comparable with the colic caecum of birds and mammals.
On the other hand, in certain birds (herons) as a normal occurrence, and in many birds as an individual variation, only a singlecaecum occurs.
At birth the caecum is a cone, the apex of which is the appendix; it is bent upon itself to form a U, and sometimes this arrangement persists throughout life (see C.
About the sixth week the caecum appears as a lateral diverticulum, and, until the third month, is of uniform calibre; after this period the terminal part ceases to grow at the same rate as the proximal, and so the vermiform appendix is formed.
The caecum is a blind sac occupying the right iliac fossa and extending down some two or three inches below the ileo- caecal junction.
In the foetus this loop occupies the right iliac fossa, but, as the caecum descends and enlarges and the pelvis widens, it is usually driven out of this region.
The taeniae in the caecum all lead to the vermiform appendix, and form a useful guide to this structure.
Caecum and appendix, while in the ileum they are collected into large oval patches, known as agminated glands or Peyer's patches, the long axes of which, from half an inch to 4 in.
A short caecal diverticulum, comparable with the colic caecum of birds and mammals, is present in many snakes and lizards and in some chelonians.
The third portion of the gut should be termed the hind-gut and lies between the caecum or caeca and the anus, corresponding to the large intestines, colon and rectum of human anatomy.
The ascending colon runs up from the caecum at the level of the ileo-caecal valve to the hepatic flexure beneath and behind the right lobe of the liver; it is about 8 in.
It is only in herbivorous mammals that the caecum is developed to this great extent, and among these there is a complementary relationship between the size and complexity of the organ and that of the stomach.
Where the latter is simple the caecum is generally the largest, and vice versa.
Chalmers Mitchell has identified the paired caeca, or blind appendages, of the intestine of birds with the usually single caecum of mammals.
The other representative of the family--Caecum trachea--has a shell something like that of Dentalium (p.
As previously mentioned, O'Shea met with a case of hemorrhage into the caecum which was mistakenly operated upon for appendicitis.
As the caecum is extraordinarily large and delicate in this species, they drew the deduction that the development of scurvy in the guinea-pig was due principally to the retention of faeces.
These authors found that the caecum of their animals was greatly distended with putrefying faeces.
If the diet has consisted of milk and oats, the caecumwill be found full and perhaps impacted, whereas if hay and oats have been fed, the caecum will be less full and its contents semisolid.
A large hemorrhage in the wall of the caecum was found, as well as some other hemorrhages in the peritoneal cavity.
The stomach was intensely inflamed, the caecum injected.
The sigmoid flexure is the situation in which volvulus most commonly takes place, but it may occur in the caecum and small intestine.
In cases where the foreign body lodges in the intestine the caecum and duodenum are favourite situations for obstruction.
They state that in 48% of foeti the caecum is mobile in half, fixation gradually going on; while in 8.
It appears as if, in consequence of changed diet or habits, the caecum had become much shortened in various animals, the vermiform appendage being left as a rudiment of the shortened part.
The caecum is a branch or diverticulum of the intestine, ending in a cul-de-sac, and it is extremely long in many of the lower vegetable-feeding mammals.
At this or some earlier period, the intestine gave forth a much larger diverticulum or caecumthan that now existing.
The most frequent cause is the caecum (the lower pouch of the colon) getting filled with hardened faecal matter, in which case the ileo caecal valve is obstructed, and the natural passages of the bowels stopped.
The most common parts of the colon to become enlarged are the sigmoid flexure and the caecum (see diagram in beginning of book), but accumulations may occur in any part of the colon.
In Dipodomys ordii the entire visceral mass is loosely interconnected and the caecum is relatively small as compared to the tightly compact viscera and the large caecum in Dipodomys deserti.
Showing the compacting of the visceral mass; liver at the top, small intestine andcaecum at the bottom.
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