Appendicitis occurs when the appendix becomes blocked, often by stool, a foreign body, or cancer. Blockage may also occur from infection, since the appendix swells in response to any infection in the body.
A familial generation is a group of living beings constituting a single step in the line of descent from an ancestor. In developed nations the average familial generation length is in the high 20s and has even reached 30 years in some nations.
There is no acual biological or scientific deffinition of this but poeple have until recently considered a generation to be 20 years. Now that women have become emancipated and often have children later in life, a generation will become more than 20 years. On average in the Western world it will be somewhere between 25 and 30 years. drstella Â· 1 decade ago.