peritoneum

English

Alternative forms

• peritonaeum
• peritonæum (dated)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɛ.ɹɪ.təˈniː.əm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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

• capnoperitoneum
• hematoperitoneum
• hydroperitoneum
• intraperitoneum
• neoperitoneum
• peritoneal
• peritoneally
• peritonitis
• pleuroperitoneum
• pneumoperitoneum
• pyoperitoneum
• retroperitoneum
• seroperitoneum
• uroperitoneum

Translations

serous membrane in mammals

• Arabic: صِفَاق (ṣifāq)
• Asturian: peritonéu m
• Basque: baresare
• 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
• Greek: περιτόναιο (el) n (peritónaio)
• Hungarian: hashártya (hu)
• Icelandic: lífhimna f
• Ido: peritoneo (io)
• Indonesian: peritoneum (id)
• Irish: seicin f
• Japanese: 腹膜 (ja) (ふくまく, fukumaku)
• Kazakh: ішперде (išperde)
• Korean: 복막(腹膜) (ko) (bongmak)
• Latin: peritonaeum n
• 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

  Latin: 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)
• Welsh: perfeddlen f, peritonëwm m, gweren f

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]

• Audio:

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

Noun

peritoneum n (plural peritonea, no diminutive)

1. peritoneum

   Synonym: buikvlies

Related terms

• peritonitis

Descendants

• → Indonesian: peritoneum

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /peritoˈneum/ [pe.ri.t̪oˈne.ʊm]
• Rhymes: -eum
• Syllabification: pe‧ri‧to‧ne‧um

Noun

peritoneum (uncountable)

1. (anatomy) peritoneum

   Synonyms: selaput perut, selaput rongga perut

Related terms

• peritonitis

Further reading

• “peritoneum”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

peritoneum n (definite singular peritoneumet, indefinite plural peritoneum, definite plural peritoneuma or peritoneumene)

1. (anatomy) peritoneum

Synonyms

• bukhinne

Derived terms

• peritoneal
• peritonitt

References

• “peritoneum” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

peritoneum n (definite singular peritoneumet, indefinite plural peritoneum, definite plural peritoneuma)

1. (anatomy) peritoneum

Synonyms

• bukhinne

Derived terms

• peritoneal
• peritonitt