diverticulosis

1. 1.

   presence of multiple diverticula in the walls of the colon

   Broaderpathology

Other forms of diverticulosis

plural

diverticulosises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about diverticulosis

What does diverticulosis mean?

diverticulosis means "presence of multiple diverticula in the walls of the colon".

How many syllables are in diverticulosis?

diverticulosis has 6 syllables and divides as di-ver-ti-cu-lo-sis under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.