barrage A barrage is something that comes quickly and heavily â as an attack of bullets or artillery, or a fast spray of words. Sometimes in movies or news footage, the audience gets a glimpse from behind a mounted weapon and sees a heavy rain of bombs or bullets â called a barrage â going toward a target, sending as much POW! as possible to hit a wide area.
What is your appendix? Your appendix is a small tube about the same size as your little finger. It is attached to the beginning of your large intestine (the caecum - say: see-kem), near where the small and large intestines meet. One end opens into the large intestine but the other end is closed. It has a lining which passes fluid from the blood vessels into the middle of the appendix.
The Cecum. Shaped like a pouch, the cecum (also known as caecum) is where the colon begins. It is connected to the small intestines through the ileocecal valve. The ileocecal valve is the inlet valve of the colon. It acts as a one way valve to allow food wastes to flow from the small intestines into the colon, but prevents waste in the colon from leaking into the small intestines. Located below the ileocecal valve is the appendix, which has a channel opening.