How to Use peritonitis in a Sentence

peritonitis

noun

• Cause of death: rupture of the bladder, owing in part to acute peritonitis.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• All of them were ear-tipped, and many looked reasonably healthy, but one of them had peritonitis and was lacking an eye.
  — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• The blockage caused the whale to develop peritonitis, an infection of the abdomen, leading to its death.
  — Don Sweeney, sacbee, 9 Apr. 2018
• The necropsy found an ulcer in the wall of the animal's stomach that ultimately led to peritonitis.
  — Luis Andres Henao, Fox News, 22 Aug. 2018
• She was diagnosed with peritonitis and was essentially bedridden for more than a year.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• But poke a hole in the colon and the escaping contents — bacteria, digestive juices or even blood — spill into the space between those layers, causing the near-instant pain of peritonitis.
  — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2020
• Cynthia died of peritonitis in 1933, leaving behind three children.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 10 June 2022
• Bradford’s wife, Fannie, died of peritonitis, an inflammation of the lining in the abdominal walls.
  — Alex Chan, Daily Pilot, 20 Apr. 2017
• McKenna told jurors to disregard the death certificate, which blamed the death on sepsis and peritonitis due to a colon perforated by a feeding tube, which his client had inserted.
  — Christopher Goffardstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2022
• Harry Houdini's cause of death was peritonitis, caused by a ruptured appendix.
  — Kerry J. Byrne, Fox News, 31 Oct. 2022
• This then would result in the inflammation of your peritoneum, the lining of the insides of your abdomen, called peritonitis, which can be a life-threatening condition and is a surgical emergency.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• But some coronaviruses, like the feline infectious peritonitis virus, take evasion to the next level: exploitation.
  — Donald S. Burke, STAT, 18 Feb. 2022
• Houdini died on Halloween 1926 from peritonitis caused by a ruptured appendix.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Dec. 2019
• There's no evidence Chan Hol 3 had syphilis, but researchers believe she may have been afflicted with its relative, Treponema peritonitis.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 5 Feb. 2020
• Suffered from serious illnesses throughout childhood, spending one year in the hospital due to peritonitis and two years in a sanitarium for pleurisy.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 23 June 2021
• Perforation allows the contents of the intestines to leak into the abdominal space, causing an infection called peritonitis.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 26 Oct. 2017
• The cats can also fall victim to feline infectious peritonitis, a disease caused by another coronavirus strain that affects the gastrointestinal tract.
  — Gloria Dickie, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020
• Symptoms of peritonitis include fatigue, nausea, vomiting and a swollen stomach, all of which Taylor complained of in the weeks leading up to her death, according to former staff members at Diamond Ranch Academy.
  — NBC news, 22 Apr. 2023
• The official cause of death was peritonitis, the inflammation of a membrane lining the abdominal wall that is usually the result of a fungal or bacterial infection.
  — Luke Hammill, chicagotribune.com, 19 May 2017
• After his digestive tract was repaired and the abscess drained and treated with radiation, Durham suffered setbacks of acute pancreatitis that set into peritonitis.
  — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2020
• The peritonitis was the result of the undiagnosed gonorrhea that also led to pericarditis, pleurisy, arthritis in her hips and feet, and vulnerability to the tuberculosis bacillus.
  — Frances Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 2 Feb. 2023
• The appendix could burst, leading to long-term hospitalization and a potentially life-threatening infection known as peritonitis.
  — Amanda Gardner, Health, 29 Oct. 2023
• Their bellies became swollen like bowling balls, a symptom characteristic of the disease feline infectious peritonitis, or FIP, that is almost 100 percent fatal left untreated.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2023
• In 1926, magician Harry Houdini died in Detroit of peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2021
• The famous magician, illusionist, and entertainer died from peritonitis caused by a ruptured appendix, but multiple contradicting reports caused quite the mystery around his death.
  — Lauren Smith McDonough and Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 14 Aug. 2020
• The famous magician, illusionist and entertainer died from peritonitis caused by a ruptured appendix, according to Biography.com.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 9 June 2022
• According to medical investigations, Beever died of peritonitis, which is the inflammation of the abdominal wall, Lincolnshire Live reports.
  — Eileen Reslen, Seventeen, 19 Sep. 2017
• The famous magician, illusionist, and entertainer definitely died from peritonitis caused by a ruptured appendix, but the real reason for his death is a mystery due to multiple contradicting reports.
  — Lauren Smith, Good Housekeeping, 7 July 2018
• Some people will develop complications, including digestive bleeding, bowel obstruction and peritonitis, inflammation of the inner wall of the abdomen.
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 11 May 2017
• What starts out as a relatively mild gastrointestinal infection eventually causes serious peritonitis (inflammation of the membrane lining the abdominal wall) in some animals.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024