ALL meanings of appendix
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A a - countable noun appendix Your appendix is a small closed tube inside your body which is attached to your digestive system. 3
- countable noun appendix An appendix to a book is extra information that is placed after the end of the main text. 3
- noun appendix a body of separate additional material at the end of a book, magazine, etc, esp one that is documentary or explanatory 3
- noun appendix any part that is dependent or supplementary in nature or function; appendage 3
- noun appendix additional or supplementary material at the end of a book or other writing 3
- noun appendix an outgrowth of an organ; esp., the vermiform appendix 3
- noun appendix A tube-shaped sac attached to and opening into the lower end of the large intestine in humans and some other mammals. 1
- noun appendix body: organ 1
- noun appendix on document 1
- noun appendix Appendices, a plural borrowed directly from Latin, is sometimes used, especially in scholarly writing, to refer to supplementary material at the end of a book. 1
- noun plural appendix supplementary material at the end of a book, article, document, or other text, usually of an explanatory, statistical, or bibliographic nature. Synonyms: addendum, adjunct, appurtenance; addition, supplement. 1
- noun plural appendix an appendage. 1
- noun plural appendix Anatomy. a process or projection. vermiform appendix. 1
- noun plural appendix Aeronautics. the short tube at the bottom of a balloon bag, by which the intake and release of buoyant gas is controlled. 1
- noun appendix (obsolete in general sense) Something attached to something else; an attachment or accompaniment. 0
- noun appendix Specifically, a text added to the end of a book or an article, containing information that is important to but is not the main idea of the main text. 0
- noun appendix (anatomy) The vermiform appendix, an inner organ without known use that can become inflamed. 0