Caecal in a Sentence
  • The stomach is beset throughout its length with numerous small, finger-like caecal tubes.
  • Usually each tube is provided with caecal appendages on its proximal portion, and these serve as vesiculae seminales, while the distal portion is enlarged and glandular and secretes the egg-shell.
  • This name is applied to the numerous fine caecal tubes of noticeable length developed from the proctodaeal invert of ectodermal origin in Hexapods.
  • Such renal caecal tubes seem to be readily evolved from either metenteron or proctodaeum when the conditions of the out-wash of nitrogenous waste-products are changed by the transference from aquatic to terrestrial life.
  • Renal caecal tubes (Malpighian tubes) open into the proctodaeum.
  • The most common form of the disease is caecal coccidiosis, caused by Eimeria tenella.
  • The best probiotic is caecal pellets from a healthy rabbit, which have a mucus coating to withstand stomach acid.