Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected with peritonitis: as, peritonitic adhesions.
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Examples
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In such instances it is best to confine the diet to mucilaginous soup and to forbid everything else, as long as hemorrhages have not ceased, or the other dangerous peritonitic symptoms have not disappeared.
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann
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The peritonitic infection continued to spread, and laparotomy was performed.
Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade 1896
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