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Vermiform appendix   Listen
adjective
Vermiform  adj.  Resembling a worm in form or motions; vermicular; as, the vermiform process of the cerebellum.
Vermiform appendix (Anat.), a slender blind process of the caecum in man and some other animals; called also vermiform appendage, and vermiform process. Small solid bodies, such as grape seeds or cherry stones, sometimes lodge in it, causing serious, or even fatal, inflammation.






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... out that many animals have such muscles at the present time, and it is argued that the ability of some men to move the whole scalp points to the existence of muscles with such function in our brute ancestors. The vermiform appendix in man is termed rudimentary, being but a remnant of the much longer and more complex appendix of the same nature in ...
— Evolution - An Investigation and a Critique • Theodore Graebner



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