Meanings
noun
- pluralplural of peritonæum
2. That sepsis is not so likely to occur in these peritonæa as in laparotomy in healthy ones, on account of the pathological changes which have taken place in the membranes.
1907, Parker Syms, Annals of Surgery, volume XLVI, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 96
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