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Descriptor English: Cecum
Descriptor Spanish: Ciego
Descriptor ciego
Scope note: Fondo de saco que constituye la primera porción del intestino grueso. (Diccionario Mosby. 5a ed. Madrid: Harcourt España, 2000, p. 237).
Descriptor Portuguese: Ceco
Descriptor French: Caecum
Tree number(s): A03.556.124.526.209
A03.556.249.249.209
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002432
Scope note: The blind sac or outpouching area of the LARGE INTESTINE that is below the entrance of the SMALL INTESTINE. It has a worm-like extension, the vermiform APPENDIX.
Annotation: Inflammation = CECITIS see TYPHLITIS
Allowable Qualifiers: AB malformations
AH anatomie et histologie
BS vascularisation
CH composition chimique
CY cytologie
DE effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques
DG imagerie diagnostique
EM embryologie
EN enzymologie
GD croissance et développement
IM immunologie
IN traumatismes
IR innervation
ME métabolisme
MI microbiologie
PA anatomopathologie
PH physiologie
PP physiopathologie
PS parasitologie
RE effets des radiations
SU chirurgie
TR transplantation
UL ultrastructure
VI virologie
Related: Caecostomie MeSH
DeCS ID: 2468
Unique ID: D002432
NLM Classification: WI 530
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2006/07/05
Caecum - Preferred
Concept UI M0003712
Preferred term Caecum



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