COECUM, or BLIND-CUT. See ANATOMY, n° 93.
Dr Musgrave gives us an account, in the Philosophical Transactions, of the cœcum of a dog being cut out without any prejudice to the animal. Mr Giles gives us another of the cœcum of a lady being distended, so as to form a tumor that held almost three choppins of a thin, greyish, almost liquid substance, of which she died. And Mr Knowler a third, of a boy's cœcum being vastly extended and stuffed with cherry-stones, which likewise proved mortal.