diverticulitis

diverticulitis (usually uncountable, plural diverticulites)

1. (medicine, pathology) An infection of the diverticulum.
   • 2019 October 28, Jane E. Brody, “Fiber in Fruits and Grains Protects Against Diverticulitis”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     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.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [di.βər.ti.kuˈli.tis]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [di.vər.ti.kuˈli.tis]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [di.veɾ.ti.kuˈli.tis]

diverticulitis f (invariable)

1. (pathology) diverticulitis

• diverticle

• “diverticulitis”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “diverticulitis” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

From divertículo +‎ -itis.

• IPA^(key): /dibeɾtikuˈlitis/ [d̪i.β̞eɾ.t̪i.kuˈli.t̪is]
• Rhymes: -itis
• Syllabification: di‧ver‧ti‧cu‧li‧tis

diverticulitis f (uncountable)

1. (pathology) diverticulitis

• “diverticulitis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024