appendix
Other forms: appendices; appendixes
No, it's not just a tiny organ pouch that requires surgery when it begins to hurt; an appendix is also additional material at the end of a book or paper.
You would think that the appendix at the end of a book came after appendix the body part, wouldn't you? After all, our bodies have been around a lot longer than books have. But you'd be wrong. The name for the organ, also known as vermiform appendix, came into use later, no doubt because it is something attached — as its Latin root is translated — to the intestines just as an appendix is attached to the end of a book.
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a vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the cecum and that resembles a small pouchsynonyms: cecal appendage, vermiform appendix, vermiform process
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supplementary material that is collected and appended at the back of a booktypes:shirttaila brief addendum at the end of a newspaper articlecodicila supplement to a will; a testamentary instrument intended to alter an already executed willtype of:addendum, postscript, supplementtextual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end
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