blind gut
[See blind a. 11.]
One of the intestines closed at the lower end; the cæcum.
| 1594 T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 350 The first of these great ones is called the blinde gut, because..it hath but one way, both to receive in, and to let out the matter received. 1758 J. S. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (1771) B b 2 b, The blind Gut, so called from being perforated at one End only. |