| peritoneal | <anatomy> Of or pertaining to the peritoneum. Origin: Cf. F. Peritoneal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| peritoneal button | A device used to drain ascitic fluid to subcutaneous space. (05 Mar 2000) |
| peritoneal cavity | The space enclosed by the peritoneum. It is divided into two portions, the greater sac and the lesser sac or omental bursa, which lies behind the stomach. The two sacs are connected by the foramen of winslow, or epiploic foramen. (12 Dec 1998) |
| peritoneal diseases | Conditions or disorders affecting the peritoneum. (12 Dec 1998) |
| peritoneal exudate | A term most commonly used to describe the fluid drained from the peritoneal cavity some time after the injection of an irritant solution. For example: a standard method for obtaining neutrophil leucocytes is to inject intraperitoneally saline with glycogen (to activate complement) and drain off the leucocyte rich peritoneal exudate some hours later. (18 Nov 1997) |
| peritoneal fossae | Depressions or pouches formed between various peritoneal folds; they may be the sites of internal hernias. (05 Mar 2000) |
| peritoneal lavage | Washing out of the peritoneal cavity. The procedure is a diagnostic as well as a therapeutic technique following abdominal trauma or inflammation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| peritoneal transfusion | The injection of saline solution or other fluid into the peritoneal cavity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| peritoneal villi | Villi on the surface of the peritoneum. Synonym: villi peritoneales. (05 Mar 2000) |
| complications of ventriculo-peritoneal shunt | <radiology> Kinking, interruption, exit from peritoneal cavity with growth, through processus vaginalis to scrotum, CSFoma, mass effect exhibited on bowel gas pattern with malfunctioning shunt, lack of movement of shunt tip with positional or temporal change, perforation of hollow viscus (e.g., bowel or bladder) (12 Dec 1998) |
| superior recess of lesser peritoneal sac | Pneumoenteric recess, a recess of the embryonic celom between the right lung bud and the gut; it is normally largely obliterated before birth, leaving only the superior recess of the vestibule of the lesser peritoneal sac as a vestige. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tuberculosis, peritoneal | Tuberculosis of the serous lining of the abdomen. (12 Dec 1998) |
| lesser peritoneal cavity | <anatomy> An isolated portion of the peritoneal cavity lying dorsal to the stomach and extending craniad to the liver and diaphragm and caudad into the greater omentum; it opens into the general peritoneal cavity at the epiploic foramen. Synonym: bursa omentalis, lesser peritoneal cavity, lesser peritoneal sac, omental sac. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lesser peritoneal sac | <anatomy> An isolated portion of the peritoneal cavity lying dorsal to the stomach and extending craniad to the liver and diaphragm and caudad into the greater omentum; it opens into the general peritoneal cavity at the epiploic foramen. Synonym: bursa omentalis, lesser peritoneal cavity, lesser peritoneal sac, omental sac. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mixed discrete-continuous random variable | <statistics> A random variable that may assume some values with probabilities and others with probability densities. For example, in a 35-year-old man with familial polyposis of the colon, the distribution of time until malignant disease occurs consists of a probability that he already has cancer (which would be assigned the waiting time 0), a probability density of developing it in the future and a probability that he will die of some other cause before he develops cancer. (05 Mar 2000) |