vermiform process

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vermiform process - a vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the cecum and that resembles a small pouch cecal appendage, vermiform appendix, appendix 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"

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