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peritonitis
This term is a clinical diagnosis used exclusively in medical contexts to describe a severe inflammatory response. It carries a high degree of urgency and gravity, as the condition is typically life-threatening and requires immediate surgical or pharmacological intervention.
As a medical condition named after the affected anatomical structure, the word is treated as an uncountable mass noun. It does not have a plural form in standard clinical usage; one does not refer to multiple instances of the disease as peritonitises, but rather speaks of cases of peritonitis.
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We must administer broad spectrum antibiotics immediately to treat the peritonitis.
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