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Diverticulitis

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Noun
  1. 1
    An infection of the diverticulum. uncountable, usually

    "He had a slight fever and thought he had appendicitis. So did his doctor, who sent him to the emergency room, where an M.R.I. revealed not appendicitis but diverticulitis, an infection in an outpouching of his colon he never knew he had."

  2. 2
    inflammation of a diverticulum in the digestive tract (especially the colon); characterized by painful abdominal cramping and fever and constipation wordnet

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