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can someone tell me is the same location the appendix in women as is in the man?

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1. Yes, it is in the same location for both sexes.
2. yes it is. It is located at the very end of the colon in both males and females. All organs (except the sexual organs) are located in the same spots in both genders. Unless you have some sort of medical condition, then all your organs are in the same spot as every other person.
3. Yes, because the appendix is a part of the large intestine, which is part of the digestive system, and all people need to eat, right?
4. Yeah the apendix is in the same place for both males and females.
5. Yes it is... although, there have been cases that the appendix was in the left side of the abdomen.
6. In plant-eating vertebrates, the appendix is much larger and its main function is to help digest a largely herbivorous diet. The human appendix is a small pouch attached to the large intestine where it joins the small intestine and does not directly assist digestion. Biologists believe it is a vestigial organ left behind from a plant-eating ancestor. Interestingly, it has been noted by paleontologist Alfred Sherwood Romer in his text The Vertebrate Body (1949) that the major importance of the appendix “would appear to be financial support of the surgical profession,” referring to, of course, the large number of appendectomies performed annually. In 2000, in fact, there were nearly 300,000 appendectomies performed in the United States, and 371 deaths from appendicitis. Any secondary function that the appendix might perform certainly is not missed in those who had it removed before it might have ruptured. note: copied this from livescience.