Usually means: Inflammation of the abdominal lining.
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  1. peritonitis: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. peritonitis: Merriam-Webster
  3. peritonitis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. peritonitis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. peritonitis: Collins English Dictionary
  6. peritonitis: Vocabulary.com
  7. Peritonitis, peritonitis: Wordnik
  8. peritonitis: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. peritonitis: Wiktionary
  10. peritonitis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. peritonitis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. peritonitis: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. peritonitis: Dictionary.com
  14. Peritonitis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Peritonitis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. peritonitis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. peritonitis: Rhymezone
  18. Peritonitis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. peritonitis: FreeDictionary.org
  20. peritonitis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. peritonitis: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. peritonitis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. peritonitis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Peritonitis: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. Peritonitis: Merck Manuals
  6. Digestive Diseases Dictionary (No longer online)
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  8. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  9. Peritonitis: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  10. peritonitis: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  11. peritonitis: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  12. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
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  14. peritonitis: Medical dictionary
  15. Inflammatory Bowel Disease Glossary (No longer online)
  16. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  17. Peritonitis: Drug Medical Dictionary
  18. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Peritonitis, Peritonitis, Peritonitis: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

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noun:  (pathology) Inflammation of the peritoneum, especially when caused by an infectious organism introduced into the abdominal cavity.

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