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's are reasons why Gen X is so often ignored, said Taylor. There are fewer of them: Just 65 million, compared to 77 million Boomers and roughly 83 million Millennials. And they span just 16 years, whereas most generations encompass two decades.