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What is a diverticulum?

What is a diverticulum? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) A small growth off an organ such as the large intestine.
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The epithalamic roof plate evaginates to form a midline diverticulum that differentiates into the endocrine pineal gland.
The crop is either a simple swelling between esophagus and midgut or a diverticulum from the esophagus.
The, surgeon placed a 30-mm vascular stapler across the neck of the diverticulum and secured and transected the diverticulum.
Rectal diverticulum to side tube usually spontaneously occurs in one week.
In Elasmobranchii the primitive median diverticulum gives rise to the ductus choledochus.
They use their chelicerae to grip the nipple of a specialized stalked diverticulum that branches from the mother's ovariuterus.

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