peritonitis

English

Etymology

From peritoneum +‎ -itis.

Noun

peritonitis (countable and uncountable, plural peritonitides or peritonites)

1. (pathology) Inflammation of the peritoneum, especially when caused by an infectious organism introduced into the abdominal cavity.
   • 1901 December, E. Q. THORNTON M.D., “PRACTICAL THERAPEUTIC REFERENDUM”, in PROGRESSIVE MEDICINE. A QUARTERLY DIGEST OF ADVANCES DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SCIENCES., volume IV, page 363:

     Intraperitoneal injections of a strong solution produce fibrohemorrhagic peritonitis of varying intensity, according to the strength of the solution; while intraperitoneal injections of small quantities of a diluted solution of formalin induce a chronic peritonitis with great connective tissue proliferation, and a striking eosinophilia.

Derived terms

• chemical peritonitis
• feline infectious peritonitis
• metroperitonitis

Translations

inflammation of the peritoneum

• Armenian: պերիտոնիտ (hy) (peritonit)
• Azerbaijani: peritonit
• Belarusian: перытаніт m (pjerytanit)
• Bulgarian: перитонит m (peritonit)
• Catalan: peritonitis (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 腹膜炎 (fuk¹ mok^6-2 jim⁴)

  Hokkien: 腹膜炎 (pak-mo̍͘h-iām)

  Mandarin: 腹膜炎 (zh) (fùmóyán)

• Czech: peritonitida f
• Danish: bughindebetændelse c
• Dutch: peritonitis (nl) f, buikvliesontsteking (nl) f
• Esperanto: peritoneito
• Estonian: peritoniit
• Faroese: búkhinnubruni m
• Finnish: vatsakalvontulehdus, peritoniitti
• French: péritonite (fr)
• Galician: peritonite (gl) f
• German: Bauchfellentzündung (de) f, Peritonitis f
• Greek: περιτονίτιδα (el) f (peritonítida)
• Hungarian: hashártyagyulladás (hu)
• Icelandic: lífhimnubólga f
• Ido: peritonito (io)
• Irish: peireatóiníteas m
• Italian: peritonite (it) f
• Japanese: 腹膜炎 (ふくまくえん, fukumakuen)
• Korean: 복막염 (ko) (bongmagyeom)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: perîtonît

• Kyrgyz: перитонит (peritonit)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bukhinnebetennelse m

  Nynorsk: bukhinnebetennelse m

• Odia: ପେରିଟୋନାଇଟିସ (periṭonāiṭisa)
• Persian: پریتونیت (fa) (peritonit)
• Polish: zapalenie otrzewnej n
• Portuguese: peritonite (pt) f
• Romanian: peritonită (ro) f
• Russian: перитони́т (ru) m (peritonít)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: перитонѝтис m

  Roman: peritonìtis (sh) m

• Spanish: peritonitis (es) f
• Swedish: bukhinneinflammation (sv) c, peritonit c
• Tagalog: magambabantiyan
• Thai: เยื่อบุช่องท้องอักเสบ (yêua bù chông tóng àk-sàyp)
• Turkish: peritonit (tr)
• Ukrainian: перитоні́т m (perytonít)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: перитонит (uz) (peritonit)

  Roman: peritonit (uz)

• Yakut: перитонит (peritonit)

Catalan

Etymology

From peritoneu +‎ -itis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pə.ɾi.tuˈni.tis]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [pe.ɾi.toˈni.tis]
• Rhymes: -itis
• Hyphenation: pe‧ri‧to‧ni‧tis

Noun

peritonitis f (invariable)

1. (pathology) peritonitis

Further reading

• “peritonitis” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin peritonitis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpeː.ri.toːˈni.tɪs/, /ˌpeː.ri.toːˈni.təs/, (Southern Dutch) [ˌpɪː.ri.toːˈni.tɪs], (Northern Dutch) [ˌpɪː.ri.to(ʊ̯)ˈni.tɪs]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pe‧ri‧to‧ni‧tis
• Rhymes: -itɪs

Noun

peritonitis f (uncountable)

1. peritonitis

   Synonym: buikvliesontsteking

Related terms

• peritoneum

Spanish

Etymology

From peritoneo +‎ -itis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peɾitoˈnitis/ [pe.ɾi.t̪oˈni.t̪is]
• Rhymes: -itis
• Syllabification: pe‧ri‧to‧ni‧tis

Noun

peritonitis f (plural peritonitis)

1. (pathology) peritonitis

Further reading

• “peritonitis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10