A surgical procedure in which the cecum is fixed or attached to the abdominal wall.
From Latin caecum (cecum) combined with Greek pexy (fixation from pegnynai, to fasten). This is a surgical/medical term describing a specific operation.
Many surgical procedures end in '-pexy' meaning to stitch or fasten something in place—so an orchidopexy fastens a testicle, a mastopexy lifts a breast, and a cecopexy pins down a wandering cecum that's causing trouble.
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