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Definition of Caeca
1. caecum [n] - See also: caecum
Medical Definition of Caeca
1. Plural of caecum. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caeca
Literary usage of Caeca
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1920)
"Another bird that I have seen had the caeca represented by small, slightly
thickened ridges that would have been overlooked without careful search. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"In the case of birds, it ma> be said that on the whole the caeca are generally
large in herbivorous forms and generally small in insectivorous, ..."
3. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"The duty of '•'•caeca obedientia " was proclaimed by visions and inculcated by
its whole discipline. The famous phrase about the individual being " quasi ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"The duty of " caeca obedientia" was proclaimed by visions and inculcated by its
whole discipline. The famous phrase about the individual being " quasi ..."
5. Dictionary of Quotations (Classical) by Thomas Benfield Harbottle (1906)
"О caeca nocen turn Consilia ! o semper timidum scelus ! " STATIUS. Thebais, II., 489.
"How blind the counsels of wrong-doers ! How timorous aye is crime ! ..."
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