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[Music] welcome back to the easy med channel where medical topics are made easy today were going to be talking about appendicitis the appendix is a tubular structure thats located in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen at the junction of the small intestine and large intestine the appendix comes off of the cecum which is that pouch-like structure at the beginning of the large intestine on average the appendix is about 9 centimeters long the appendix is also referred to as the vermiform process vermiform means worm shaped and that describes that tubular worm-like structure of the appendix the function of the appendix is overall unknown but there are a couple different ideas the first one is that its a reservoir for gut bacteria so were experiencing a gi illness and were suffering from diarrhea some of that good bacteria in the intestine goes into the appendix and it helps to maintain that good gut flora the second idea is that the appendix is involved in the lymphatic and immu