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noun
A slight bulge in the small intestine occasionally present at birth as a vestigial remnant of the vitelline duct.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
a congenital diverticulum in the ileum resulting from incomplete closure of the yolk sac
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: diverticulum
History
Named after Johann Friedrich Meckel, who described the embryological origin of this type of diverticulum in 1809.
