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noun the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens
originBorrowed from Latin caecum (“invisible, hidden”), clipping of intestīnum caecum (“blind gut”), translation of Ancient Greek τῠφλὸν ἔντερον (tŭphlòn énteron).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0