Clinical Diagnosis · Digestive System · Easy
Diverticulitis
Meaning: Inflammation or infection of small pouches in the bowel wall, usually causing left lower abdominal pain.
In practice: The elderly man with left iliac fossa pain and fever was treated for diverticulitis.
Word parts
- -itis means inflammation
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