Cecum Picture

The cecum (also spelled caecum), the first portion of the large bowel, situated in the
lower right quadrant of the abdomen.

The cecum receives fecal material from the small bowel (ileum) which opens into it. The
appendix is attached to the cecum.

The word cecum comes from the Latin caecus meaning
blind. This refers to the fact that the bottom of the cecum is a blind pouch
(a cul de sac) leading nowhere.

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