Noun: caecum
| Singular | caecum |
| Plural | caecums; caeca |
Sample Sentences
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After a preliminary course in anatomy it was found that caecum and transverse colon also provided excellent sites for excitation. [1970, J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition:]
Nouns inflected like caecum
hemiscrotum,
saeculum,
stramonium,
proscenium,
dinotherium,
quinquennium,
ambulacrum,
prolabium,
preepisternum,
coimperium,
septennium,
fulcrum,
emporium,
subminimum,
mausolæum,
mausoleum,
serpentarium,
triregnum,
viaticum,
megaannum, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin caecum (“invisible, hidden”), clipping of intestīnum caecum (“blind gut”), translation of Ancient Greek τῠφλὸν ἔντερον (tŭphlòn énteron). See: Latin Nouns '
caecus'.