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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
