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appendix

human appendix

top: normal

bottom: inflamed

ap·pen·dix

(ə-pĕn′dĭks)

n. pl. ap·pen·di·ces (-dĭ-sēz′) or ap·pen·dix·es

a. An appendage.

b. A collection of supplementary material, usually at the end of a book.

2. Anatomy Any of several supplementary or accessory parts of a bodily organ or structure, especially the vermiform appendix of the large intestine.

[Latin, from appendere, to hang upon; see append.]

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appendix

(əˈpɛndɪks)

n, pl -dices (-dɪˌsiːz) or -dixes

1. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a body of separate additional material at the end of a book, magazine, etc, esp one that is documentary or explanatory

2. any part that is dependent or supplementary in nature or function; appendage

3. (Anatomy) anatomy See vermiform appendix

[C16: from Latin: an appendage, from appendere to append]

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ap•pen•dix

(əˈpɛn dɪks)

n., pl. -dix•es, -di•ces (-dəˌsiz)

1. supplementary material at the end of a text.

2. any additional or supplemental part; appendage.

3. Also called vermiform appendix. a wormlike tube, closed at the end, extending from the cecum of the large intestine.

[1535–45; < Latin: appendage =append(ere) to append + -ix n. suffix]

usage: appendices, a plural borrowed directly from Latin, is sometimes used, esp. in scholarly writing, to refer to supplementary material at the end of a book.

ap·pen·dix

(ə-pĕn′dĭks)

Plural appendixes or appendices (ə-pĕn′-dĭ-sēz′)

A tubular projection attached to the cecum of the large intestine in humans and some other mammals. ♦ Inflammation of the appendix is called appendicitis (ə-pĕn′dĭ-sī′tĭs). ♦ Surgical removal of the appendix is called an appendectomy (ăp′ən-dĕk′tə-mē).

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appendix

A document appended to an annex of an operation order, operation plan, or other document to clarify or to give further details.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

Appendix, Appendices

something attached as if by being hung on; appendage.

Example: the ark . . . the heavenly fire, and the rest were ceremonial appendices, 1665.

appendix

(or vermiform appendix) A short, slim, wormlike tube opening into the cecum but closed at the other end. It contains lymphoid tissue, which is involved in immunity.

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Noun	1.	appendix - supplementary material that is collected and appended at the back of a book addendum, supplement, postscript - textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end shirttail - a brief addendum at the end of a newspaper article codicil - a supplement to a will; a testamentary instrument intended to alter an already executed will
	2.	appendix - a vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the cecum and that resembles a small pouch cecal appendage, vermiform appendix, vermiform process appendage, outgrowth, process - a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process" blind gut, caecum, cecum - the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens; "the appendix is an offshoot of the cecum"

appendix

noun supplement, add-on, postscript, adjunct, appendage, addendum, addition, codicil Details of the investigation are set out in the appendix.

appendix

² noun

Related words
adjective appendicular

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Translations

الزَّائِدَة الدّودِيَّهمُلْحَق

dodatekpřílohaslepé střevo

appendiksblindtarmtillæg

Blinddarm Anhang Appendix Appendizitis

απόφυση σκωληκοειδής απόφυση

apéndice

liiteumpilisäke

appendice annexe addition

függelékvakbélféregnyulványféregnyúlvány

botnlangatotabotnlangibókarauki

appendice appendicectomia appendicite completamento

apendiksas

apendiksspielikums

aanhangsel appendix

blindtarm tilføyelse tillegg vedlegg

dodatek załącznik

apêndice

adaos

аппендикс дополнение приложение

slepé črevo

dodatekslepič

apandis ek kör bağırsak

阑尾附录

appendix

[əˈpendɪks] N (appendixes (appendices (pl))) [əˈpendɪsiːz]

1. (Anat) → apéndice m
to have one's appendix out → hacerse extirpar el apéndice

2. [of book] → apéndice m

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appendix

[əˈpɛndɪks] [appendices] (pl) n → appendice m
to have one's appendix out → se faire opérer de l'appendicite

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appendix

n pl <appendices or -es>

(Anat) → Blinddarm m, → Appendix m (spec); to have one’s appendix out → sich (dat) → den Blinddarm herausnehmen lassen

(to book etc) → Anhang m, → Appendix m

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appendix

[əˈpɛndɪks] n (appendices (pl)) [əˈpɛndɪsiːz]

a. (Anat) → appendice f
to have one's appendix out → operarsi or farsi operare di appendicite

b. (to book) → appendice f

appendix

(əˈpendiks) noun

1. (plural sometimes apˈpendices (-siːz) ) a section, usually containing extra information, added at the end of a book, document etc.

2. a narrow tube leading from the large intestine. She's had her appendix removed.

ap·pen·dix

n. apéndice.

appendix

n (pl -dices o -dixes) apéndice m

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The conversation was entertaining enough, and what we may perhaps relate in an appendix, or on some other occasion; but as it nowise concerns this history, we cannot prevail on ourselves to give it a place here.

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See Appendix A] appeared at the door in a spick-and-span new blue cloth uniform, decorated with shining brass buttons, and with bands of gold lace around his cap and wristbands; and he wore white gloves, too.

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Very valuable is the appendix to Mair's translation (Oxford, 1908) on "The Farmer's Year in Hesiod".

The Appendix to Monro's "Homer's Odyssey" xii-xxiv (pp.

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So that when Socrates, in Plato's Republic, says that a city is necessarily composed of four sorts of people, he speaks elegantly but not correctly, and these are, according to him, weavers, husbandmen, shoe-makers, and builders; he then adds, as if these were not sufficient, smiths, herdsmen for what cattle are necessary, and also merchants and victuallers, and these are by way of appendix to his first list; as if a city was established for necessity, and not happiness, or as if a shoe-maker and a husbandman were equally useful.

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At that time the world at large seemed to have a passion for appendicitis, and a good many cases came to the operating theatre for this complaint: the surgeon for whom Philip dressed was in friendly rivalry with a colleague as to which could remove an appendix in the shortest time and with the smallest incision.

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I've been through the encyc1opaedia down to Y looking for something you can't buy with it; and I expect to have to take up the appendix next week.

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{162} See plan of Ulysses' house in the appendix. It is evident that the open part of the court had no flooring but the natural soil.

{169} Or perhaps simply "window." See plan in the appendix.

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This testimony, so long as I live, and so long as my descendants have any legal right in my books, I shall cause to be republished, as an appendix to every copy of those two books of mine in which I have referred to America.

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Dowler invariably brought in, in the form of an appendix, some remarkable fact or circumstance which Mr.

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The fact that he got through his supines without mistake the next day, encouraged him to persevere in this appendix to his prayers, and neutralized any scepticism that might have arisen from Mr.