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What is the peritoneum and peritonitis and what would the clinical picture be?
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The peritoneum is a membrane that surrounds the walls and organs of the abdominal cavity below the diaphragm. Peritonitis signs and symptoms include: severe abdominal pain that may radiate to the tip of the shoulder, boardlike rigid abdomen, abdominal distention, nausea, vomiting, fever, rapid heart rate, rapid breathing, restlessness, confusion, and little to no urination. Mortality rate is about 40% overall. Complications of peritonitis are shock from fluid loss into abdominal cavity and death. Abscesses are also common.
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What is the membrane that lines the body's cavity?
The peritoneal cavity is just space which the abdominal organs occupy. So basically the membrane would be called the peritoneal membrane or shortly known as the peritonuem hope this helps ^_^
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There is one set of organs that is located behind or outside of the peritoneum but still within the abdominal cavity - these are the kidneys. They are said to be located in the retroperitoneum.
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