Cecum
Cecum, ie, the appendix, found in people and amniotic animals. In the human body is located in the lower right part of the abdominal cavity, right middle abdomen about 6 to 8 cm in the beginning of the structure of the large intestine, shaped like a bag. Cecum up to the ascending colon, the lower part of a hole through the appendix, with the ascending colon junction area of the inner wall of the ileocecal valve, to prevent the contents of the large intestine reflux. The cecal degradation of the human body, the role is not obvious, and herbivorous animals have a long bag-like cecum, especially those who can not ruminate to digest the food of cellulose animals. Chinese literature "difficult" called "splash", is one of the seven Chong Men. Cecum is rarely inflamed, the so-called appendicitis is mostly mistaken for appendicitis. ...