caecum

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• /ˈsiː.kəm/
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Borrowed from Latin caecum (“invisible, hidden”), clipping of intestīnum caecum (“blind gut”), translation of Ancient Greek τῠφλὸν ἔντερον (tŭphlòn énteron).

44 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: sekum — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Armenian: կույր աղիք (kuyr aġikʻ) — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Asturian: ciegu — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Azerbaijani: korbağırsaq — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Bulgarian: сляпо черво (sljapo červo) — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Bulgarian: цекум (cekum) — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Catalan: cec — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Chinese Mandarin: 盲腸 /盲肠 (mángcháng) — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Czech: slepé střevo — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Danish: blindtarm — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Finnish: umpisuoli — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• French: cæcum — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• French: cécum — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Galician: cego — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Galician: intestino cego — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Galician: paiolo — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Georgian: ბრმა ნაწლავი (brma nac̣lavi) — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• German: Blinddarm — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Hungarian: vakbél — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Icelandic: botnristill — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Ido: ceko — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Irish: caochán — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Japanese: 盲腸 (mōchō) — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Kumyk: сокъур ичек (soqur içek) — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Māori: kopa whēkau — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Norwegian Bokmål: blindtarm — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Norwegian Nynorsk: blindtarm — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Pannonian Rusyn: шлєпе черево (šljepe čerevo) — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Polish: jelito ślepe — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Portuguese: ceco — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Romanian: cec — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Romanian: cecum — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Russian: слепа́я кишка́ (slepája kišká) — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Slovak: slepé črevo — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Spanish: ciego — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Spanish: intestino ciego — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Swedish: blindtarm — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Turkish: kör bağırsak — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Turkish: çekum — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Ukrainian: сліпа кишка (slipa kyška) — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Vietnamese: ruột tịt — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Vietnamese: manh tràng — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Welsh: coluddyn dall — blind pouch connected to the large intestine
• Zhuang: saejlaemz — blind pouch connected to the large intestine