diverticul-

(Latin: a by-road, a turn away, go in different directions; branching away from)

Used in the specialized sense of "tubular pocket or pouch that branches off from a bodily cavity or canal".

Inter-related cross references involving word units meaning "bend, curve, turn": diversi-; flect-, flex-; gyro-; meand-; -plex; streph-; stroph-; tors-; tropo-; verg-; vers-; volv-.