Anatom3DAppendix
Appendix vermiformis · Červovitý přívěsek
Lymphatic & immune
Looks like
A narrow worm-shaped tube, usually 5–10 cm long, hanging from the caecum in the lower right belly.
What it does
Holds lymphoid tissue and a reserve of gut bacteria; we live normally without it.
Keeping it well
Appendicitis: pain starting round the navel and moving to the lower right, with fever and loss of appetite, needs same-day assessment.
Related conditions
- Acute mesenteric ischaemia (gut stroke)
- Appendicitis
- Bowel obstruction
- Chagas disease
- Chronic constipation
- Clostridioides difficile colitis
- Colon polyps
- Colorectal cancer
- Crohn's disease
- Diverticular disease
- Food poisoning
- Gastroenteritis
- Gastrointestinal bleeding
- Hereditary cancer syndromes (BRCA, Lynch)
- Infant colic
- Intussusception & pyloric stenosis
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Liver abscess (pyogenic and amoebic)
- Microscopic colitis
- Necrotising enterocolitis
- Typhoid & cholera
- Ulcerative colitis