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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vermiform \Ver"mi*form\, a. [L. vermis a worm + -form.]
Resembling a worm in form or motions; vermicular; as the
vermiform process of the cerebellum.
{Vermiform appendix} (Anat.), a slender blind process of the
c[ae]cum in man and some other animals; -- called also
{vermiform appendage}, and {vermiform process}. Small
solid bodies, such as grape seeds or cherry stones,
sometimes lodge in it causing serious, or even fatal,
inflammation. See Illust. under {Digestion}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
vermiform
adj : resembling a worm; long and thin and cylindrical [syn: {worm-shaped}]
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