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Cecum forms a blind pouch at the primary junction

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Where your internal pipes finally meet, nature inexplicably installed a dead-end cul-de-sac. Matter drops into this completely absurd little pouch before having to be forced aggressively upward against gravity just to continue its journey.

Cecum forms a blind pouch at the primary junction
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