diverticulum

English edit

From Latin dīverticulum, alternative form of dēverticulum (“byroad; deviation”), from dēvertō (“turn away, turn aside”).

diverticulum (plural diverticulums or diverticula)

(anatomy) A small out-pouching of an organ wall such as the large intestine or urinary bladder.
- 2015, Giulia Enders, translated by David Shaw, Gut, Scribe, published 2016, page 16:
  Diverticula are small, light-bulb-shaped pouches in the bowel wall, resulting from the tissue in the gut bulging outwards under pressure.

Derived terms

small growth off an organ

(Classical) IPA^(key): /diː.u̯erˈti.ku.lum/, [d̪iːu̯ɛrˈt̪ɪkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di.verˈti.ku.lum/, [d̪iverˈt̪iːkulum]

dīverticulum n (genitive dīverticulī); second declension

Alternative form of dēverticulum ("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 praebuit diverticuli 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 a diverticulum 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.

diverticulum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)