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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

A Meckel's diverticulum, a true congenital diverticulum, is a slight bulge in the small intestine present at birth and a vestigial remnant of the vitelline

A Zenker's diverticulum, also pharyngeal pouch, is a diverticulum of the mucosa of the human pharynx, just above the cricopharyngeal muscle (i.e. above

diverticulosis are constipated. In complicated diverticulitis, an inflamed diverticulum can rupture, allowing bacteria to subsequently infect externally from

from a dilated segment of the proximal descending aorta, the so-called Diverticulum of Kommerell (which was named for the German radiologist Burkhard Friedrich

As applied to mollusks, the Neo-Latin term diverticulum is an anatomical feature. The term is most often encountered in the plural form as "diverticula"

Killian–Jamieson diverticulum is an outpouching of the esophagus just below the upper esophageal sphincter. The physicians that first discovered the diverticulum were

A urachal diverticulum (also vesicourachal diverticulum) is a congenital disorder caused by the partial persistence of the allantois. The allantois, which

A urethral diverticulum is a condition where the urethra or the periurethral glands push into the connective tissue layers (fascia) that surround it. Urethral

kidney stone that may extend into the renal calyces. A renal diverticulum is diverticulum of renal calyces. Renal medulla Renal pyramids Calyx (anatomy)