vermiform appendix in a sentence

Examples

1. The liver is said to have five lobes, the gallbladder is described as the seat of yellow bile, and the cecum is described with no mention of the vermiform appendix.
2. In late-August, it was discovered that Haslin had appendicitis, causing him to miss time after recovering from emergency surgery to remove his vermiform appendix at Sacred Heart Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
3. A classic example at the level of gross anatomy is the human vermiform appendix & mdash; though vestigial in the sense of retaining no significant " digestive " function, the appendix still has immunological roles and is useful in maintaining gut flora.
4. Historically, there was a trend not only to dismiss the vermiform appendix as being uselessly vestigial, but an anatomical hazard, a liability to Bayliss and Starling, argued against these views, but in the early twentieth century, there remained a great deal of fundamental research to be done on the functions of large parts of the digestive tract.