FromLatindīverticulum, alternative form ofdēverticulum(“byroad; deviation”), fromdēvertō(“turn away, turn aside”).
- IPA(key): /ˌdɑɪ.vɜːˈtɪ.kjə.ləm/
diverticulum (pluraldiverticulumsordiverticula)
- (anatomy) A small out-pouching of an organ wall such as thelarge intestine orurinary bladder.
2015, Giulia Enders, translated by David Shaw,Gut, Scribe, published2016, page16:Diverticula are small, light-bulb-shaped pouches in the bowel wall, resulting from the tissue in the gut bulging outwards under pressure.
small growth off an organ
Fromdēvertō(“to turn away”) +-i- +-culum(suffix for instrumental and diminutive nouns).
dīverticulum n (genitivedīverticulī);second declension
- Alternative form ofdēverticulum ("byroad").
- (anatomy, New Latin, exclusively as diverticulum) A small growth off an organ of a body;diverticulum.
- 1829,University of Groningen,Annales Academiae groninganae, Commentatio de diverticulus intestinorum, page 69:
Baillie exemplum praebuitdiverticuli coniuncti cum vitiis a niſu formativo abnormi productis: illuc ſc. invenit in foetu, cui aderat omnium thoracis et abdominis viscerum ſitus inverſus, una cum partitione lienis in quinque lobos, uti in Cetaceis ſolet.- Baillie provided an example of adiverticulum connected with defects extended by an abnormal formative impulse. To that point naturally it is found in a foetus, to whom an inverted position of all the internal organs of the abdomen and thorax is present, together with a separation of the spleen into five lobes, as is usual in cetaceans.
Second-declension noun (neuter).
