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Inflammation of a diverticulum in the digestive tract (especially the colon)
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diverticulitis
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n. (context medicine pathology English) An infection of the diverticulum.
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Diverticulitis is a digestive disease in which pouches within the large bowel wall become inflamed . Symptoms typically include lower abdominal pain of a sudden onset. Onset however may also occur over a few days. In North America and Europe pain is usually ...
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n. inflammation of a diverticulum in the digestive tract (especially the colon); characterized by painful abdominal cramping and fever and constipation
Usage examples of diverticulitis.
Glynn had thin hair and an invariant three-day growth of gray stubble and diverticulitis that made him stoop somewhat over, and remaining physique-type issues from a load of bricks falling on his head from a Workers Comp scam gone rye that included crossed eyes that Lenz overheard the veiled girl Joe L.
Gately has to check on Doony Glynn, who has recurrent diverticulitis and has to lie fetal on his bunk when he gets an attack and has to be brought Motrin and a SlimFast shake that Gately had to make with 2% milk because there was no skim left, and then Food Bank crackers and a tonic out of the basement's machine when Glynn can't drink the 2% shake, and then Log Glynn's comments and condition, neither of which are good.
All Gately knows about diverticulitis is that Pat said it's intestinal and alcoholics can get it in recovery from impurities in bottom-shelf blends that the body's trying to expel.
He was a little young to have diverticulitis already, but it wasn't bad enough to bother him.
About forty percent of us over forty have got diverticulitis, but most of us don't even know it.
The intestine of the Amsterdam girl indicated diverticulitis, despite her young age.