I am also fascinated with words and their meanings. A while back I was reading about Caecums, which are important in Veterinary medicine. Pigs have very large caecums, as do Chimps. Dogs & cats have appendices, as do humans. What Wikipedia says is kind of fascinating: “Most mammalian herbivores have a relatively large cecum, hosting a large number of bacteria, which aid in the enzymatic breakdown of plant matter such as cellulose; in many species, it is considerably wider than the colon. In contrast, obligate carnivores, whose diets contain little or no plant matter, have a reduced cecum, which is often partially or wholly replaced by the appendix“
I will repeat that: Obligate carnivores have a reduced cecum… replaced by the appendix.
Have you every heard of a person having Caecumitis? How about appendicitis? So where does that put humans and the meat eating scene? We used to know it and Wikipedia accidentally confirms it!
Jogging Pop -- "ἀγων - ἀρετη" 