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Updated: June 23, 2025
In drier sites near Calcutta, a species of worm ejects its castings, not in vermiform masses, but in little pellets of varying sizes: these are very numerous in some places, and Mr. Scott says that they "are washed away by every shower."
A valvular arrangement called the ileo-cæcal valve, which is provided with a button-hole slit, forms a kind of movable partition between this part of the large intestine and the small intestine. Tubular Glands of the Small Intestines. Attached to the cæcum is a worm-shaped tube, about the size of a lead pencil, and from three to four inches long, called the vermiform appendix. Its use is unknown.
I never eat heavily for the first twenty-four hours when I am in a strange place." And with this I went to the door, feeling, I must confess, a trifle ill. The steak and coffee were all right, but there was a suggestion of pain in my right side. I could not make up my mind if it were the six hundred melons or whether a nugget from the omelet had got caught in my vermiform appendix.
A German anatomist says that we have the vestiges of one hundred and eighty organs which have stuck to us from our animal ancestors, now useless, or often worse than useless, like the vermiform appendix. Eleven of these superannuated and obsolete organs we bring from the fishes, four from amphibians and reptiles. The external ear is a vestige of no use any more.
The reduced vermiform appendix of man, a source of much ill health, is another structure that is a counterpart of a relatively larger and useful part of the digestive tract in the lower primates and other animals. Furthermore, the human tail is a reality, not a fiction.
This long and thin intestine then passes into the large intestine, from which it is cut off by a special valve. Immediately behind this "Bauhin-valve" the first part of the large intestine forms a wide, pouch-like structure, the caecum. The atrophied end of the caecum is the famous rudimentary organ, the vermiform appendix.
I opened several of these fish, which are very numerous and of considerable size, and I found their intestines distended by small pieces of coral, and finely ground calcareous matter. This must daily pass from them as the finest sediment; much also must be produced by the infinitely numerous vermiform and molluscous animals, which make cavities in almost every block of coral. Dr.
Nor does it tell us if later in life, but before the suffering from the pea arose, she had been taken to consult two famous doctors, one of whom had removed the vermiform appendix, while the other a little later had performed an operation for "adhesions."
No trace of such a structure exists in any bird or in any reptile, and yet it crops out again in certain sharks. So great, however, is the number of similar, but apparently independent, structures, that we suffer from a perfect embarras de richesses. In man and the highest apes the cæcum has a vermiform appendix, as it has also in the wombat!
You lost by one of those strange accidents which must be attributed to the interference of the Almighty in the affairs of men." "Lost!" Cappy jeered. "Lost! Skinner, you infuriate me. I haven't lost. Like John Paul Jones, I haven't yet commenced to fight. Skinner, listen to me. When I get through with that Matt Peasley you can take it from me he'll be sore from soul to vermiform appendix."
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