Usually means: Beginning of the large intestine.
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  1. cecum: Merriam-Webster
  2. cecum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cecum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cecum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cecum: Vocabulary.com
  6. cecum: Wordnik
  7. cecum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cecum, Cecum: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. cecum: Wiktionary
  10. cecum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. cecum (caecum): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. cecum: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. cecum: Dictionary.com
  14. Cecum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. cecum: Rhymezone
  16. cecum: FreeDictionary.org
  17. cecum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. cecum: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cecum: Encyclopedia

Medicine (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. cecum: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Cecum: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Cecum: Merck Manuals
  6. Digestive Diseases Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  9. Cecum: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  10. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  11. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  12. cecum: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  13. cecum: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  14. A-Z Family health glossary (No longer online)
  15. cecum: Medical dictionary
  16. Inflammatory Bowel Disease Glossary (No longer online)
  17. Cecum: Drug Medical Dictionary
  18. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cecum: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (American spelling) Alternative form of caecum [(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.]

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