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How to pronounce peritonitis in English?

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Synonyms peritoneal inflammation
Type of inflammation, redness, rubor

Examples of peritonitis

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Walter Griffin died in India in 1937 of peritonitis following a cholecystectomy.
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Accidental, sepsis due to peritonitis due to complications of abdominal trauma.
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The death was officially ruled as peritonitis resulting from a burst appendix.
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The portable took care of them so fast that no serious peritonitis developed.
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Rodin's sister Maria, two years his senior, died of peritonitis in a convent in 1862.
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He died of peritonitis, or severe swelling of the abdomen's lining, on Halloween Day 1926.
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It may occur without alarming symptoms until septicaemia or diffuse peritonitis sets in.
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I had developed dialysis-related peritonitis, though I didn't know it.
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She developed peritonitis, and died the following day at London Hospital.
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More examples
  • Inflammation of the peritoneum
  • Infection of the peritoneal cavity that must be treated immediately by a doctor.
  • When the membrane surrounding the abdominal digestive organs (peritoneum) becomes inflammed. The primary condition results from the spread of bacteria. The secondary one results from a rupture or performation of diseased digestive organs (i.e., appendicitis, cancer, peptic ulcer).
  • Inflammation of the peritoneum. It is most often due to bacterial infection, but can also be caused by a chemical irritant (such as spillage of acid from the stomach or bile from the gall bladder).
  • Infection of the gut wall
  • (PEH-rih-toh-NY-tis)