peritonaeum

plural peritonaea

1. alternativeAlternative form of peritoneum.

   That sepsis is not as likely to occur in these peritonaea as in laparotomy on healthy ones, on account of the pathological changes which have taken place in the membrane.

   1897 October 13, Parker Syms, “The Surgery of Tuberculosis of the Peritonaeum”, in E. D. Ferguson, editor, Transactions of the New York State Medical Association, for the Year 1897, volume XIV, New York, N.Y.: […] [T]he Association: […], page 213

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   “Researchers” at the Basle Pharmaceutical Group Sandoz AG injected poisons into the peritonaea of mice, rats and rhesus monkeys, placed the animals on hot-plates, scorched their tails and clamped their feet.

   1984, Zbigniew Bańkowski, Norman Howard-Jones, editors, Biomedical Research Involving Animals: Proposed International Guiding Principles; Proceedings of the XVIIth CIOMS Round Table Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 8-9 December 1983, Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences, →ISBN, page 26