Peritonitis

Definition: Peritonitis

Peritonitis

Noun

1. Inflammation of the peritoneum.

Etymology: Peritonitis \Per`i*to*ni"tis\, noun. [New Latin expression. See Peritoneum, and -itis.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Peritonitis

Domain	Definitions
Health	Inflammation of the peritoneum; a condition marked by exudations in the peritoneum of serum, fibrin, cells, and pus. It is attended by abdominal pain and tenderness, constipation, vomiting, and moderate fever. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Peritonitis

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Peritonitis is an infection (or an inflammation) of the peritoneum, which is a two-layered membrane covering both the surfaces of the organs that lie in the abdominal cavity and the inner surface of the abdominal cavity itself.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Peritonitis."

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Synonym: Peritonitis

Synonym: peritoneal inflammation (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Peritonitis

English words defined with "peritonitis": Milk fever. (references)

Specialty definitions using "peritonitis": Abdomen, Acute ♦ Coronavirus Infections ♦ Exophiala ♦ Feline Infectious Peritonitis ♦ Infectious Peritonitis Virus, Feline ♦ Urachal Cyst. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Peritonitis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (peritonitis), Dutch (peritonitis), German (peritonitis), Spanish (peritonitis).

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Commercial Usage: Peritonitis

Domain	Title
Books	Peritonitis (reference) Peritonitis in Capd (Contributions to Nephrology, Vol 57) (reference) The Open packing--laparostomy--in pancreatitis and peritonitis (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Peritonitis

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Autopsy of infant showing abdominal distension, intestinal necrosis and hemorrhage, and peritonitis due to perforation.Credit: CDC.		Streptococcus pneumoniae is one of the most common organisms causing respiratory infections such as pneumonia and sinusitis, as well as bacteremia, otitis media, meningitis, peritonitis and arthritis. Streptococci.Credit: CDC.
	This organism causes respiratory infections such as pneumonia and sinusitis, as well as bacteremia, otitis media, meningitis, peritonitis and arthritis. The Neufeld-Quellung test is used in pneumococcus typing. Streptococci.Credit: CDC.		Six groups are in this genus: A, B, C, D, F, and G, which and are often found in pairs or chains. This organism causes respiratory infections such as pneumonia and sinusitis, as well as bacteremia, otitis media, meningitis, peritonitis and arthritis.Credit: CDC.
	Six groups are in this genus: A, B, C, D, F, and G, which and are often found in pairs or chains. This organism causes respiratory infections such as pneumonia and sinusitis, as well as bacteremia, otitis media, meningitis, peritonitis and arthritis.Credit: CDC.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Peritonitis

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Without surgery, peritonitis can be fatal. (references)
		Infection that spreads into the abdominal cavity is called peritonitis. (references)
		The overwhelming cause of unsuccessful peritoneal dialysis is peritonitis. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Peritonitis

"Peritonitis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Peritonitis" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	32	61,292

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Peritonitis

Expression using "peritonitis": Feline Infectious Peritonitis. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Peritonitis

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
peritonitis	255
feline infectious peritonitis	51
peritonitis symptom	7
spontaneous bacterial peritonitis	6
acute peritonitis	6
feline peritonitis	5
abdomen abdominal absceso peritonitis sinple y	4
bacteriana espontánea peritonitis	3
bacterial peritonitis	3
peritonitis tuberculous	2
bacteriana espontanea peritonitis	2
dialisis en peritoneal peritonitis	2
peritonitis treatment	2
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Modern Translations: Peritonitis

Language		Translations for "peritonitis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		peritonit. (various references)

Arabic		‏التهاب الصفاق. (various references)

Bulgarian		перитонит. (various references)

Czech		zánìt pobřišnice. (various references)

Danish		peritonitis (celitis, coelitis). (various references)

Dutch		peritonitis. (various references)

Farsi		پریتونیت(طب), التهاب صفاق . (various references)

Finnish		vatsakalvontulehdus. (various references)

French		péritonite. (various references)

German		Peritonitis, Bauchfellentzündungen. (various references)

Greek		περιτονίτιδα (celitis, coelitis). (various references)

Hebrew		�"לקת �"צפק, צפקת. (various references)

Hungarian		hashártyagyulladás. (various references)

Indonesian		radang selaput perut. (various references)

Italian		peritonite. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		腹膜炎 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ふくまくえ�". (various references)

Korean		복막염. (various references)

Pig Latin		eritonitispay

Portuguese		peritonite (periwig). (various references)

Romanian		peritonitã. (various references)

Russian		воспаление брюшины, перитонит. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		upala trbušne maramice. (various references)

Spanish		peritonitis. (various references)

Swedish		peritonit, bukhinneinflammation. (various references)

Turkish		peritonit, karın zarı iltihabı. (various references)

Ukranian		перитоніт. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Peritonitis

Derivations
	Words beginning with "peritonitis": peritonitises. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Peritonitis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: peridonitis, peridotitic, peritonitus. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Peritonitis"

Words rhyming with "peritonitis" (pronounced 'Per`i*to*ni"tis'): Appendicitis, Arachnitis, Arteritis, Arthritis, Arthrochondritis, Blepharitis, Bronchitis, Bursitis, Fetis, gastritis, Gastroduodenitis, gastroenteritis, Glossitis, Glottis, Gratis, hepatitis, laryngitis, Lymphangeitis, Macrocystis, Myelitis, myocarditis, Myositis, Myosotis, Nephritis, Nereocystis, Neuritis, Oophoritis, Orchitis, Osteitis, Osteoperiostitis, Ostitis, Otis, Otitis, Ovaritis, Ovotesttis, Pachymeningitis, Parametritis, Perichondritis, Pericystitis, Perinephritis, Periostitis, Periproctitis, Perityphlitis, Pharyngitis, Phlebitis, Phrenitis, Pleuritis, Pneumonitis, Proctitis, Proglottis. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Peritonitis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-i-i-n-o-p-r-s-t-t"
	-2 letters: petitions, pointiest, retinitis, trinities.
	-3 letters: inspirit, introits, nepotist, nitrites, petition, pointers, pointier, porniest, portents, pristine, proteins, ripienos, snottier, spottier, tenorist, tritones, tropines.
	-4 letters: inosite, inspire, intorts, introit, ironies, ironist, nitrite, nittier, noisier, norites, oestrin, orients, orpines, pietist, piniest, pinites, pintoes, pitiers, pointer, pointes, portent, postern, potters, pottier, potties, prostie, protein, protest, protist, pterins.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-i-i-n-o-p-r-s-t-t"
	+2 letters: importunities, interposition, peritonitises.
	+3 letters: interpositions, petrifications, precipitations, repristination, repudiationist.
	+4 letters: hypertonicities, perfectionistic, prettifications, repristinations, repudiationists.
	+5 letters: introspectionism, introspectionist, nephrotoxicities, operationalistic, prenotifications, prestidigitation, reprivatizations.
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