Assertion: appendix | /r/HasProperty | vestigial organ
Facets:
value: by most
type: OTHER
value: with no function
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Many doctors believe the appendix is a vestigial organ with no function and is no more than a blind ended tube connected to the cecum, from which it develops embryologically.
text: Therefore, the notion that the appendix is only vestigial became widely held.
text: It is a vestigial process resembling a small pouch.
text: The vermiform appendix is considered by most to be a vestigial organ.
text: The appendix used to be considered a vestigial organ, but this view has changed over the past decades.
text: Others feel that the appendix is a vestigial organ, a remainder from the time when humans regularly dined on tree bark and needed an additional organ to break down the roughage.
text: The appendix is a vestigial organ, which means that a person can live a normal life even without the appendix.
text: Therefore, the notion that the appendix is only vestigial became widely held.