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別の表記

• cæcum (dated)
• cecum (US)

語源

Borrowed from Latin caecum (“invisible, hidden”), clipping of intestīnum caecum (“blind gut”), translation of Ancient Greek τῠφλὸν ἔντερον (tŭphlòn énteron).

発音

• IPA: /ˈsiː.kəm/
• 韻: -iːkəm

名詞

caecum (plural caecums or caeca)

1. (anatomy) A cavity open at one end (such as the blind end of a duct), especially a blind pouch connected to the large intestine between the ileum and the colon.

   Synonym: blind gut

   • 1970, J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition:

     After a preliminary course in anatomy it was found that caecum and transverse colon also provided excellent sites for excitation.

派生語

参照

• “caecum”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “cecum”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

アナグラム

• ceacum

語源 1

From caecus (“having no light; uncertain, doubtful”).

名詞

caecum n (genitive caecī); second declension

1. (poetic) Uncertainty, obscurity.

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

語源 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

形容詞

caecum

1. inflection of caecus:
   1. accusative masculine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular

参照

• “caecus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press