peritoneum

English

Alternative forms

• peritonaeum

Etymology

From Latin peritonaeum, from Ancient Greek περιτόναιον (peritónaion), from περιτόναιος (peritónaios, “stretched or strained over”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɛ.ɹɪ.təˈniː.əm/

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Noun

peritoneum (plural peritoneums or peritonea)

1. (anatomy) In mammals, the serous membrane lining the cavity of the abdomen and that is folded over the viscera.
2. (zoology) In animals, the membrane lining the coelom cavity.

Derived terms

• hydroperitoneum
• peritoneal
• peritoneally
• peritonitis
• pleuroperitoneum
• pneumoperitoneum
• retroperitoneum

 

Translations

serous membrane in mammals

• Asturian: peritonéu m
• Belarusian: брушы́на f (brušýna)
• Catalan: peritoneu m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腹膜 (zh) (fùmó)

• Czech: pobřišnice f
• Danish: bughinde (da) c
• Dutch: buikvlies (nl) n, peritoneum (nl) n
• Esperanto: peritoneo
• Faroese: búkhinna f
• Finnish: vatsakalvo (fi)
• French: péritoine (fr) m
• Galician: teaz f, touca f, escama (gl) f, peritoneo (gl) m
• German: Peritoneum (de) n, Bauchfell n
• Hungarian: hashártya (hu)
• Icelandic: lífhimna f
• Ido: peritoneo (io)
• Irish: seicin f
• Japanese: 腹膜 (ja) (ふくまく, fukumaku)
• Kazakh: ішперде (ışperde)
• Korean: 복막(腹膜) (ko) (bongmak)
• Latvian: vēderplēve f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bukhinne (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: bukhinne f

• Persian: صفاق (fa) (sefâq)
• Polish: otrzewna (pl) f
• Portuguese: peritoneu m, peritónio m (Portugal), peritônio m (Brazil)
• Russian: брюши́на (ru) f (brjušína)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: трбушница f, осука f, потрбушница f

  Roman: trbušnica f, osuka f, potrbušnica (sh) f

• Spanish: peritoneo (es) m
• Swedish: bukhinna (sv) c
• Tagalog: bambantiyan
• Ukrainian: очере́вина f (očerévyna)
• Vietnamese: màng bụng (𦛿䏾)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin peritonaeum, from Ancient Greek περιτόναιον (peritónaion).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpeː.ri.toːˈneː.ʏm/, (Southern Dutch) [ˌpɪː.ri.toːˈneː.ʏm], (Northern Dutch) [ˌpɪː.ri.to(ʊ̯)ˈne.jʏm]

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• Hyphenation: pe‧ri‧to‧ne‧um
• Rhymes: -eːʏm

Noun

peritoneum n (plural peritonea)

1. peritoneum

   Synonym: buikvlies

Related terms

• peritonitis

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

peritoneum m (definite singular peritoneumen, indefinite plural peritoneumer, definite plural peritoneumene)

1. (anatomy) peritoneum

Synonyms

• bukhinne

Derived terms

• peritoneal
• peritonitt

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

peritoneum m (definite singular peritoneumen, indefinite plural peritoneumar, definite plural peritoneumane)

1. (anatomy) peritoneum

Synonyms

• bukhinne

Derived terms

• peritoneal
• peritonitt