An alternative spelling of cecal, relating to the cecum, a pouch-like structure at the beginning of the large intestine.
Variant spelling of cecal, from Latin caecum (blind), derived from caecus (blind), because the structure is blind-ended with no opening at one end.
The cecum is 'blind' in the anatomical sense—it's a dead-end pouch in your intestines where herbivores store plant material to ferment, which is why we humans have a useless tiny version.
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