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DIVERTICULUM
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Irregular inflected form: diverticula
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A herniation through the muscular wall of a tubular organ (especially the colon)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("diverticulum" is a kind of...):
hernia; herniation (rupture in smooth muscle tissue through which a bodily structure protrudes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diverticulum"):
Meckel's diverticulum (a congenital diverticulum in the ileum resulting from incomplete closure of the yolk sac)
Context examples:
Malabsorption, especially of vitamin B12 or folic acid, due to metabolic competition by bacteria proliferating in a segment of small intestine excluded from normal peristaltic movement; it may occur as a postoperative complication of side-to-side anastomosis of intestine, as a result of intestinal diverticula, fistula, etc.
(Blind Loop Syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
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