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In mammals, the serous membrane lining the cavity of the abdomen and that is folded over the viscera.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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In animals, the membrane lining the coelom cavity.
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Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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a transparent membrane that lines the abdominal cavity in mammals and covers most of the viscera
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: serous membrane, serosa
Narrower terms: mesentery, omentum
From Latin peritonaeum, from Ancient Greek περιτόναιον (peritónaion), from περιτόναιος (peritónaios, “stretched or strained over”).
Across languages
Translations
53 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
صِفَاق
(ṣifāq)
— serous membrane in mammals
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Asturian:
peritonéu
— serous membrane in mammals
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Basque:
baresare
— serous membrane in mammals
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Belarusian:
брушы́на
(brušýna)
— serous membrane in mammals
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Catalan:
peritoneu
— serous membrane in mammals
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Chinese Mandarin:
腹膜
(fùmó)
— serous membrane in mammals
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Czech:
pobřišnice
— serous membrane in mammals
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Danish:
bughinde
— serous membrane in mammals
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Dutch:
buikvlies
— serous membrane in mammals
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Dutch:
peritoneum
— serous membrane in mammals
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Esperanto:
peritoneo
— serous membrane in mammals
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Faroese:
búkhinna
— serous membrane in mammals
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Finnish:
vatsakalvo
— serous membrane in mammals
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French:
péritoine
— serous membrane in mammals
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Galician:
teaz
— serous membrane in mammals
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Galician:
touca
— serous membrane in mammals
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Galician:
escama
— serous membrane in mammals
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Galician:
peritoneo
— serous membrane in mammals
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German:
Peritoneum
— serous membrane in mammals
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German:
Bauchfell
— serous membrane in mammals
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Greek:
περιτόναιο
(peritónaio)
— serous membrane in mammals
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Hungarian:
hashártya
— serous membrane in mammals
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Icelandic:
lífhimna
— serous membrane in mammals
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Ido:
peritoneo
— serous membrane in mammals
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Indonesian:
peritoneum
— serous membrane in mammals
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Irish:
seicin
— serous membrane in mammals
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Japanese:
腹膜
(fukumaku)
— serous membrane in mammals
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Kazakh:
ішперде
(ışperde)
— serous membrane in mammals
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Korean:
복막
(bongmak)
— serous membrane in mammals
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Latin:
peritonaeum
— serous membrane in mammals
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Latvian:
vēderplēve
— serous membrane in mammals
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Norwegian Bokmål:
bukhinne
— serous membrane in mammals
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
bukhinne
— serous membrane in mammals
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Persian:
صفاق
(sefâq)
— serous membrane in mammals
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Polish:
otrzewna
— serous membrane in mammals
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Portuguese:
peritoneu
— serous membrane in mammals
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Portuguese:
peritónio
— serous membrane in mammals
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Portuguese:
peritônio
— serous membrane in mammals
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Russian:
брюши́на
(brjušína)
— serous membrane in mammals
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Serbo-Croatian:
трбушница
— serous membrane in mammals
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Serbo-Croatian:
осука
— serous membrane in mammals
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Serbo-Croatian:
потрбушница
— serous membrane in mammals
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Serbo-Croatian:
trbušnica
— serous membrane in mammals
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Serbo-Croatian:
osuka
— serous membrane in mammals
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Serbo-Croatian:
potrbušnica
— serous membrane in mammals
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Spanish:
peritoneo
— serous membrane in mammals
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Swedish:
bukhinna
— serous membrane in mammals
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Tagalog:
bambantiyan
— serous membrane in mammals
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Ukrainian:
очере́вина
(očerévyna)
— serous membrane in mammals
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Vietnamese:
màng bụng
— serous membrane in mammals
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Welsh:
perfeddlen
— serous membrane in mammals
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Welsh:
peritonëwm
— serous membrane in mammals
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Welsh:
gweren
— serous membrane in mammals