Word: diverticulum
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...diverticulum (Latin for a small bypath) of the large bowel is a little pouch or sac formed by pressure inside the gut, forcing the inner layer (mucosa) through a weak spot in the outer, muscular layers. It may be no bigger than a BB shot, or it may be the size of a plum with a stalklike neck. If the neck is extremely narrow, fecal matter forced into the diverticulum will stay there, setting up an ever-present threat of infection and making the condition harder to detect since the barium used to get X-ray contrast may not penetrate...
...with diet, says Miss Gardner in Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics. Like most people in the Middle Ages, he ate too much in summer and too little in winter; that, plus lack of sanitary arrangements in his castle, helped produce constipation in a colon already sluggish. He got fat, a diverticulum or sac developed in the colon, and the sac became inflamed...
...Cleveland, recuperating from his diverticulum operation (TIME, Oct. 10) William Randolph Hearst gave newshawks an interview. Excerpt: "The surgeons say the operation was not important,* but whenever folks begin plowing around in my interior, the situation becomes important as far as I am concerned. Dr. [George Washington] Crile says he has been doing operations like mine for years and has never had a fatality. Of course, I do not want to spoil such a good record and am particularly pleased...
...Long inconvenienced, though not debilitated, by a diverticulum (pouch) in his esophagus, Mr. Hearst saw TIME's report of modern surgery's success with the phenomenon (TIME, March 21), despatched his Manhattan medical reporter to learn TIME's sources, finally proceeded to the Crile Clinic, had his pouch sewed shut...