appendix

UK:  [ə'pendɪks]

US:  [ə'pendɪks]

复数：appendixes  

n.

1.附录,附言,补遗

2.附件

3.附器

4.附属物;附庸

5.附肢

6.楔形域

7.蚓突

8.突起

9.(飞船充气和放气用的)气量调节管

10.【解剖学】阑尾

v.

1.附加于

1 . An obstruction. Food waste or a hard piece of stool (fecal stone) can block the opening of the cavity that runs the length of your appendix.
阻塞。食物残渣或是粪石（就是…一块儿坚硬的便便）会堵住阑尾的开口。

2 . Darwin thought that only a few animals have an appendix and that the human version was what was left of a digestive organ called the cecum.
达尔文认为，只有少数动物有阑尾，他还认为人类的阑尾是盲肠这个消化器官在进化过程中残留下来的部分。

3 . still half - asleep , i reminded him that i had taken his wife ' s inflamed appendix out a couple of years before .
我仍昏昏欲睡，我提醒他我已在几年前摘除了他妻子发炎的阑尾。

4 . The appendix of the essay provide a questionnaire and a report of its analysis whose results have been quoted in the preamble.
文章附录部分提供了当代大学生爱国主义调查问卷和分析报告一份，不少结果在文章里面都有引用。

5 . The reason such a cobbled-on extension might be called a penthouse comes from the word's root which is related to the word appendix.
这么一个拼凑出来的扩展部分之所以被称为penthouse，是因为这个单词的词根与单词appendix（附件）有着联系。