Word Meanings - PERITONEUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The smooth serous membrane which lines the cavity of the abdomen, or the whole body cavity when there is no diaphragm, and, turning back, surrounds the viscera, forming a closed, or nearly closed, sac.

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• FORMALITY
  The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• FORMICARY
  The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
• FORMULIZE
  To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
• TURNSTONE
  Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
• TURNINGNESS
  The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. Sir P. Sidney.
• THERETO
  1. To that or this. Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer.
• TURNING
  The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned. (more info) 1. The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander. Through paths and turnings often trod
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• TURN-SICK
  Giddy. Bacon.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• VISCERA
  pl. of Viscus.
• THEREOUT
  1. Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. Lev. ii. 2. 2. On the outside; out of doors. Chaucer.
• MEMBRANE
  A thin layer or fold of tissue, usually supported by a fibrous network, serving to cover or line some part or organ, and often secreting or absorbing certain fluids. Note: The term is also often applied to the thin, expanded parts, of
• CLOSEHANDED
  Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
• TURNVEREIN
  A company or association of gymnasts and athletes.
• TURNHALLE
  A building used as a school of gymnastics.
• FORMICAROID
  Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.
• FALCIFORM
  Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
• OMNIFORMITY
  The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• RE-TURN
  To turn again.
• DIVERSIFORM
  Of a different form; of varied forms.
• VARIFORM
  Having different shapes or forms.
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• CHURCHLINESS
  Regard for the church.
• RESINIFORM
  Having the form of resin.
• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• BIFORM
  Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall.
• LORDLINESS
  The state or quality of being lordly. Shak.
• VILLIFORM
  Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• FULL-FORMED
  Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.
• SCORIFORM
  In the form of scoria.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.