【来源及含义】Latin: [from di-, "apart" and vertere, "to turn"] by-road, digression, deviation; to turn away, go in different directions
【相关描述】Used in the specialized sense of "tubular pocket or pouch that branches off from a bodily cavity or canal".
【相关词根词缀】;Inter-related cross references involving word units meaning "bend, curve, turn":;diversi-,flect-, flex-,gyro-,meand-,-plex,streph-,stroph-,tors-,tropo-,verg-,vers-,volv-.
【同源单词】diverticula, diverticular, diverticularization, diverticulectomy, diverticulitis, diverticulogram