Term: ileocecal valve: valve between the ileum of the small intestine and the cecum of the large intestine; prevents material from flowing back from the large to the small intestine
Candidate hypernym: valve: a structure in a hollow organ (like the heart) with a flap to insure one-way flow of fluid through it → 1
Candidate hypernym: glow: a feeling of considerable warmth → 0
Candidate hypernym: picture: illustrations used to decorate or explain a text → 0
Candidate hypernym: regionalism: a foreign policy that defines the international interests of a country in terms of particular geographic areas → 0
Candidate hypernym: apache dance: a violent fast dance in French vaudeville (an apache is a member of the French underworld) → 0
Candidate hypernym: plateau striped whiptail: having distinct longitudinal stripes: of Colorado Plateau from Arizona to western Colorado → 0
Candidate hypernym: mulch: a protective covering of rotting vegetable matter spread to reduce evaporation and soil erosion → 0
Candidate hypernym: apartheid: a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa → 0
Candidate hypernym: resection: surgical removal of part of a structure or organ → 0
Candidate hypernym: seaward: the direction toward the sea → 0
Candidate hypernym: absorption spectrum: the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation that has passed through a medium that absorbed radiation of certain wavelengths → 0