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Definition of Diverticulitis

1. Noun. Inflammation of a diverticulum in the digestive tract (especially the colon); characterized by painful abdominal cramping and fever and constipation.

Definition of Diverticulitis

1. Noun. (medicine pathology) An infection of the diverticulum. ¹

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Definition of Diverticulitis

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Medical Definition of Diverticulitis

1. Inflammation of a diverticulum, especially inflammation related to colonic diverticula, which may undergo perforation with abscess formation. Sometimes called left sided appendicitis. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Diverticulitis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1919)
"661-666, A Case of Carcinoma on diverticulitis of the Sigmoid; ... Gordinier and Sampson: diverticulitis Causing Intestinal Obstruction, Jour. Amer. Med. ..."

2. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists by American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1917)
"ONLY within the last decade has our attention been directed to diverticulitis affecting the lower colon. During this period the pathology of the condition ..."

3. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"diverticulitis This name should apply to inflammation of a diverticulum of the bowel ... A fecal mass might be mistaken for a tumor due to diverticulitis, ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"THE ETIOLOGY OF CERTAIN OASES OF LEFT-SIDED INTRA- ABDOMINAL SUPPURATION—ACUTE diverticulitis.1 BY GEORGE EMERSON BREWER, MD, PROFESSOR OF CLINICAL ..."

5. The Roentgen Diagnosis of Diseases of the Alimentary Canal by Russell Daniel Carman (1920)
"Although not of common occurrence as compared with other lesions of the large bowel, diverticulitis is met with sufficiently often to require its ..."

6. Diseases of the stomach, intestines, and pancreas by Robert Coleman Kemp (1912)
"diverticulitis. Sigmoid laid open longitudinally. A diverticulum containing a sloughing ulcer is seen at the lower right hand; another is sectioned near the ..."

7. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1921)
"GIFFIN, HZ, and WILSON, LH Carcinoma on diverticulitis of sigmoid. Am. JM Se., 1909, ... Acquired diverticulitis of the large intestine. Surg., Gynec. ..."

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