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Microbial ecology of the digestive tract

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Preferred term

caecal enlargement  

Synonym(s)

  • cecal enlargement

Subject

  • Microbiology
  • Veterinary medicine and animal health

Example

  • In adult germ-free rats, there is considerable caecal enlargement and this is associated with a reduced ability to absorb water from the bowel content when compared with conventional rats. (Source : INRA)

preferred label (skos-xl)

In other languages

  • Information

    lexinfo:gender: feminine

    lexinfo:partOfSpeech: noun

    distension caecale

    French

  • distension du caecum

URI

https://opendata.inra.fr/EMTD/40

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