Wednesday, 2 December 2015
10. Appendix
When primitive humans were largely food gatherers vegetarians, the appendix helped in the digestion of food. Located in a pouch like structure between large and the small intestine, the appendix basically assisted the latter in digesting cellulose and possibly also produced white blood cells. Though lying dormant, the appendix can causes a host of problems like it can get infected causing appendicitis – an inflammation of the appendix. It causes abdominal pain, decreased appetite, nausea etc but most of the time people don’t have the symptoms.
