Word.ws English Dictionary

Meckel's diverticulum

Meckel's diverticulum noun: a slight bulge in the small intestine occasionally present at birth as a vestigial remnant of the vitelline duct.

Noun

Meckel's diverticulum

  1. A slight bulge in the small intestine occasionally present at birth as a vestigial remnant of the vitelline duct.

Origin of Meckel's diverticulum

Named after Johann Friedrich Meckel, who described the embryological origin of this type of diverticulum in 1809.

Questions about Meckel's diverticulum

What does Meckel's diverticulum mean?
Meckel's diverticulum means a slight bulge in the small intestine occasionally present at birth as a vestigial remnant of the vitelline duct.
What part of speech is Meckel's diverticulum?
Meckel's diverticulum is a noun.

Words near Meckel's diverticulum in the dictionary

  1. mecistocephalid
  2. mecistocephalids
  3. meck
  4. Meckel
  5. Meckel syndrome
  6. Meckel's diverticulum
  7. Meckel's ganglia
  8. Meckel's ganglion
  9. Meckel-Gruber syndrome
  10. Meckel-Serres law
  11. Meckelian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Meckel's diverticulum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Meckel's diverticulum.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/meckel%27s_diverticulum. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.