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- Dictionarydi·ver·tic·u·lum/ˌdīvərˈtikyələm/
noun
- 1. a blind tube leading from a cavity or passage.
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In medicine or biology, a diverticulum is an outpouching of a hollow (or a fluid-filled) structure in the body. Depending upon which layers of the structure are involved, diverticula are described as being either true or false. In medicine, the term usually implies the structure is not normally present, but in embryology, the term is used for some normal structures arising from others, as for inst... Wikipedia