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say it: dahy-vur-TI-kyuh-luhm
diverticulum is a noun meaning "a herniation through the muscular wall of a tubular organ (especially the colon)". It is pronounced /ˌdaɪvɚˈtɪkjələm/ — dahy-vur-TI-kyuh-luhm. It carries one recorded sense.
a herniation through the muscular wall of a tubular organ (especially the colon)
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for diverticulum come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.