Caecum
Ferments fibre with its microbes; the horse's great fermentation chamber together with the colon.
- System
- digestive
- Region
- Abdomen
- Sides
- Right
Where it runs from and to
What this structure is anchored to at each end, and what that lets it do.
- Origin
- The right flank, from the ileum; a long comma-shaped sac with its apex toward the sternum.
- Action
- Ferments fibre with its microbes; the horse's great fermentation chamber together with the colon.
- Nerve
- Vagus nerve and the cranial mesenteric plexus.
Written for Vetomica in its own words from the standard reference anatomy of the horse; the books it was checked against are listed below.
Terminology
- English
- Caecum
- Latin (NAV)
- Caecum
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria