peritoneal, -æal, a.
(pɛrɪtəʊˈniːəl)
[f. peritoneum, -æum + -al1.]
Of, pertaining to, situated in, or affecting the peritoneum.
| 1767 Gooch Treat. Wounds I. 427 Each carrying along with it a peritonæal coat. 1797 Phil. Trans. LXXXVII. 205 There was..all the appearance of peritoneal inflammation. 1866 A. Flint Princ. Med. (1880) 590 The peritoneal thickening and fibrous adhesions which result from circumscribed peritonitis. |