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peritonitis
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peritonitis \Per`i*to*ni"tis\, n. [NL. See Peritoneum, and -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the peritoneum.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1776, medical Latin, coined c.1750 by French pathologist François-Boissier de la Croix de Sauvages (1706-1767) from Greek peritonos (from peritonaion; see peritoneum) + -itis.
Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) Inflammation of the peritoneum, especially when caused by an infectious organism introduced into the abdominal cavity
WordNet
n. inflammation of the peritoneum [syn: peritoneal inflammation]
Wikipedia
Peritonitis is an inflammation of the peritoneum, the thin tissue that lines the inner wall of the abdomen and covers most of the abdominal organs. Peritonitis may be localized or generalized, and may result from infection (often due to rupture of a hollow abdominal organ as may occur in abdominal trauma or inflamed appendix) or from a non-infectious process.
Usage examples of "peritonitis".
The woman recovered, but died five months later from a second attack of intussusception, the ileum rupturing and peritonitis ensuing.
This inflammation should not be allowed to continue, as it may become serious, even extending to the peritoneum and producing peritonitis.
This daughter suffered an attack of peritonitis, but recovered in two months under the treatment administered.
Signs of acute peritonitis were seen postmortem, the abdominal cavity was full of blood, and the ovary much lacerated.
January, 1873, she had an attack of pain with peritonitis, shortly after which what was apparently an extrauterine pregnancy gradually diminished.
The injury was limited by localized pneumonia and peritonitis, and the wound was drained through the lung by free expectoration.
The mother died from peritonitis and collapse, but the stillborn child was resuscitated.
Michaelis of Kiel gives an instance in which he performed the same operation on a woman four times, with successful issues to both mother and children, despite the presence of peritonitis the last time.
Adele died six hours afterward, and Marie died of peritonitis on the next day.
Hopital de la Charite affected with chronic peritonitis, who some time before her death exhaled a very decided odor of musk.
There were marked signs of peritonitis, and in the absence of sufficient other symptoms, it could be said that this woman had died of peritonitis in the left thoracic cavity.
Fatal peritonitis ensued and the spoon was found impacted in the last acute turn of the duodenum.
In early times the mortality of inguinal colostomy was about five per cent, but has been gradually reduced until Konig reports 20 cases with only one death from peritonitis, and Cripps 26 cases with only one death.
Fergus mentions a case in which, after this accident, the patient was considered convalescent and was walking about, when, on the seventh day, peritonitis suddenly developed and proved fatal in two days.
She had already had attacks of peritonitis and hemorrhage, and a urethrovaginal fistula was found.