Diverticulum

Definition: Diverticulum

Diverticulum

Noun

1. A herniation through the muscular wall of a tubular organ (especially the colon).

Date "diverticulum" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Etymology: Diverticulum \Div`er*tic"u*lum\, noun; plural Diverticula. [Latin expression See Diverticle.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definition: Diverticulum

Domain	Definition
Health	A pathological condition manifested as a pouch or sac opening from a tubular or sacular organ. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Diverticulum

English words defined with "diverticulum": Diverticle, Diverticula, Diverticular, diverticulitis ♦ Meckel's diverticulum ♦ rudiment. (references)

Specialty definitions using "diverticulum": optic evagination ♦ Zenker Diverticulum. (references)

Etymologies containing "diverticulum": Diverticle. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Diverticulum" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Latin (by-way).

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Commercial Usage: Diverticulum

Domain	Title
Books	The hypopharyngeal diverticulum : endoscopic treatment and manometry (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Diverticulum

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Doctors believe bleeding diverticula are caused by a small blood vessel in a diverticulum that weakens and finally bursts. (references)
		Most people have in their colons small pouches that bulge outward through weak spots, like an inner tube that pokes through weak places in a tire. Each pouch is called a diverticulum. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Diverticulum

"Diverticulum" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Diverticulum" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	7	133,076

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Diverticulum

Expressions using "diverticulum": Meckel's Diverticulum ♦ Zenker Diverticulum ♦ Zenker's Diverticulum. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Diverticulum

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
diverticulum	37
zenkers diverticulum	35
meckels diverticulum	33
diverticulum urethral	17
bladder diverticulum	11
zenker diverticulum	10
meckel diverticulum	8
diverticulum meckles	7
diverticulum esophageal	4
calyceal diverticulum	3
diverticulum duodenal	3
bladder diverticulum obstruction	2
diverticulum traction	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Diverticulum

Language		Translations for "diverticulum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		divertikel. (various references)

Dutch		divertikel, diverticulum. (various references)

Finnish		diverticulum vesicae urinariae (bladder diverticulum), virtsarakon umpipussi (bladder diverticulum), virtsarakon divertikkeli (bladder diverticulum), Meckelin umpipussi (Meckel's diverticulum), Meckelin divertikkeli (Meckel's diverticulum). (various references)

French		diverticule. (various references)

German		Divertikel, Diverticulum. (various references)

Greek		εκκόλπωμα. (various references)

Italian		diverticolo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		憩室 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		けいしつ (form and nature, second wife). (various references)

Pig Latin		iverticulumday

Portuguese		divertículo. (various references)

Spanish		divertículo. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Diverticulum"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "diverticulum" (pronounced dī'verti"kyulum)
7	-i" k y u l u m	curriculum.
4	-u l u m	pendulum, tantalum.
3	-l u m	alum, antebellum, asylum, bedlam, column, emblem, exemplum, flagellum, fullam, golem, hoodlum, pablum, phylum, problem, slalom, solemn, Solum.
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Anagrams: Diverticulum

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-i-l-m-r-t-u-u-v"
	-2 letters: multicurie.
	-3 letters: reticulum.
	-4 letters: cultured, delirium, dilutive, diluvium, dimetric, diuretic, dulcimer, duumviri, lutecium, ridicule, utriculi, verticil, virucide.
	-5 letters: culture, culvert, delimit, dictier, diluter, dimeric, ductile, ductule, duumvir, eluvium, limited, limiter, midcult, miltier, mulcted, multure, rivulet, timider, triduum, trivium, uredium, utricle, uveitic, verdict, veridic, viremic, vulture.
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