Crossword clues for diverticulum
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diverticulum \Div`er*tic"u*lum\, n.; pl. Diverticula. [L. See Diverticle.] (Anat.) A blind tube branching out of a longer one. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"blind tube" (anatomical), 1819, Modern Latin, from Latin deverticulum "a bypath," from devertere "to turn aside" (see divert).
Wiktionary
n. (context anatomy English) A small growth off an organ such as the large intestine.
WordNet
n. a herniation through the muscular wall of a tubular organ (especially the colon)
[also: diverticula (pl)]
Wikipedia
A diverticulum (plural: diverticula) is the medical or biological term for an outpouching of a hollow (or a fluid-filled) structure in the body. Depending upon which layers of the structure are involved, they are described as being either true or false.
In medicine, the term usually implies the structure is not normally present. However, in the embryonic stage, some normal structures begin development as a diverticulum arising from another structure.
As applied to mollusks, the New Latin term diverticulum is an anatomical feature. The term is most often encountered in the plural form as "diverticula", "hepatic diverticula", or "digestive diverticula", which are anatomical terms for organs which are visible from the outside of the body in a clade of sea slugs known as aeolid nudibranchs, marine opisthobranch gastropod molluscs.
The term is also applied to mollusk anatomy in other contexts: land slugs such as Lehmannia marginata have a caecal diverticulum 2 and there is also a diverticulum in the stomach of certain Bivalvia.3
Usage examples of "diverticulum".
We have nothing to do but to make this ball glance from that ball and hit that other ball, and to knock that ball with this ball into a certain caecal sacculus or diverticulum which our professional friend calls a pocket.
We have nothing to do but to make this ball glance from that ball and hit that other ball, and to knock that ball with this ball into a certain caecal sacculus or diverticulum which our professional friend calls a pocket.