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Cecum

(Taxon-specific: ) Digestive cecum. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
One of two outpocketings of midgut. Elongate and extensively branched with carapace. Opens into digestive tract posterior to esophagus/midgut border.
(syn. midgut diverticulum, digestive gland) [Stachowitsch, 1992]
Digestive cecum. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
(Taxon-specific: Family Pycnogonidae) Midgut diverticulum. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
Hepatic cecum. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
Midgut cecum. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
Dorsal cecum, lateral cecum. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
Digestive gland. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
(Taxon-specific: Class Secernentea) Midgut cecum, rectal cecum. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
(Taxon-specific: Order Monhysterida) Highly branched diverticulum, one extending from each side of anterior midgut. Fills greater part of carapace after fish louse feeds on host tissues. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
(Taxon-specific: Order Rhabditida) Digestive cecum.
(syn. caecum) [Stachowitsch, 1992]
(Taxon-specific: Family Cyatholaimidae) Unpiared anterior extension of stomach. (See also lateral midgut diverticulum).
(syn. midgut cecum, anterior midgut cecum) [Stachowitsch, 1992]
Pair of large outpocketings or one of numerous smaller outpocketings of anterior section (stomach) of midgut.
(syn. caecum, liver) [Stachowitsch, 1992]
In anaspidacean, one of numerous relatively thin tubules arising at anterior end of midgut and extending posteriorly to end of thorax. Also refers to short dorsal ceca of midgut, one at level of first abdominal somite, the other level at fifth.
(syn. digestive cecum) [Stachowitsch, 1992]