peritoneum

English

From Latin peritonaeum, from Ancient Greek περιτόναιον (peritónaion), from περιτόναιος (peritónaios, “stretched or strained over”).

peritoneum (plural peritoneums or peritonea)

(anatomy) In mammals, the serous membrane lining the cavity of the abdomen and that is folded over the viscera.
(zoology) In animals, the membrane lining the coelom cavity.

serous membrane in mammals

Asturian: peritonéu m
Belarusian: брушы́на f (brušýna)
Catalan: peritoneu m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 腹膜 (zh) (fùmó)
Czech: pobřišnice f
Danish: bughinde (da) c
Dutch: buikvlies (nl) n, peritoneum (nl) n
Esperanto: peritoneo
Faroese: búkhinna f
Finnish: vatsakalvo
French: péritoine (fr) m
Galician: teaz f, touca f, escama (gl) f, peritoneo (gl) m
German: Peritoneum (de) n, Bauchfell n
Hungarian: hashártya (hu)
Icelandic: lífhimna f
Ido: peritoneo (io)
Japanese: 腹膜 (ja) (ふくまく, fukumaku)
Kazakh: ішперде (ışperde)
Korean: 복막(腹膜) (ko) (bongmak)
Latvian: vēderplēve f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bukhinne (no) m or f
Nynorsk: bukhinne f
Persian: صفاق‎ (fa) (sefāq)
Polish: otrzewna (pl) f
Portuguese: peritoneu m, peritónio m (Portugal), peritônio m (Brazil)
Russian: брюши́на (ru) f (brjušína)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: трбушница f, осука f, потрбушница f
Roman: trbušnica f, osuka f, potrbušnica (sh) f
Spanish: peritoneo (es) m
Swedish: bukhinna (sv) c
Tagalog: bambantiyan
Ukrainian: очере́вина f (očerévyna)
Vietnamese: màng bụng (𦛿䏾)

Borrowed from Latin peritonaeum, from Ancient Greek περιτόναιον (peritónaion).

IPA^(key): /ˌpeː.ri.toːˈneː.ʏm/, (Southern Dutch) [ˌpɪː.ri.toːˈneː.ʏm], (Northern Dutch) [ˌpɪː.ri.to(ʊ̯)ˈne.jʏm]
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Hyphenation: pe‧ri‧to‧ne‧um
Rhymes: -eːʏm

peritoneum n (plural peritonea)

peritoneum m (definite singular peritoneumen, indefinite plural peritoneumer, definite plural peritoneumene)

peritoneum m (definite singular peritoneumen, indefinite plural peritoneumar, definite plural peritoneumane)