peritoneum
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Noun — In anatomy, the membrane that lines the inside of the abdominal cavity in mammals and folds over the organs within it.
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It is a clinical, anatomical term rather than everyday vocabulary.
Etymology
The word comes from Latin peritonaeum, which was taken from Ancient Greek peritónaion. That in turn goes back to a Greek word describing something stretched or strained over something else.
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