See also: peritonæum

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Noun edit

peritonaeum (plural (please verify) peritonaeums)

  1. Alternative form of peritoneum
    • 1897 October 13, Parker Syms, “The Surgery of Tuberculosis of the Peritonaeum”, in E. D. Ferguson, editor, Transactions of the New York State Medical Association, for the Year 1897, volume XIV, New York, N.Y.: [] [T]he Association: [], page 213:
      That sepsis is not as likely to occur in these peritonaea as in laparotomy on healthy ones, on account of the pathological changes which have taken place in the membrane.
    • 1984, Zbigniew Bańkowski, Norman Howard-Jones, editors, Biomedical Research Involving Animals: Proposed International Guiding Principles; Proceedings of the XVIIth CIOMS Round Table Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 8-9 December 1983, Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences, →ISBN, page 26:
      “Researchers” at the Basle Pharmaceutical Group Sandoz AG injected poisons into the peritonaea of mice, rats and rhesus monkeys, placed the animals on hot-plates, scorched their tails and clamped their feet.

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek περιτόναιον (peritónaion), from περιτόναιος (peritónaios), from περίτονος (perítonos, covered with something stretched over) +‎ -αιος (-aios, adjective suffix).

Noun edit

peritonaeum n (genitive peritonaeī); second declension

  1. (anatomy) peritoneum

Declension edit

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative peritonaeum peritonaea
Genitive peritonaeī peritonaeōrum
Dative peritonaeō peritonaeīs
Accusative peritonaeum peritonaea
Ablative peritonaeō peritonaeīs
Vocative peritonaeum peritonaea

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