diverticulitis[dÄ«â²vÄr-tikâ²yÅ«-lÄ«â²tis] 1. Inflammation of a diverticulum, especially of the small pockets in the wall of the colon which fill with stagnant fecal material and become inflamed; rarely, they may cause obstruction, perforation, or bleeding.
The very shortest distance from any part of Hawaii to any part of the U.S. west coast seems to be 2,281 miles, from a point on the eastern edge of the island of Hawaii to a small California promontory at north latitude 38o 55' 8.4.
Hawaii is frequently included statistically in the âPacificâ states of the United States, even though, as a group of Polynesian volcanic and coral islands lying more than 2,000 miles (3,200 km) off the U.S. Pacific Coast, it has little in common geologically with the mainland states.