peritoneum

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William Schaffner, a professor of medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University’s medical school, said another possibility is that an infection has spilled into the peritoneum, the lining of the abdomen.

From Washington Post

Indira died on Monday due to an "acute inflammation of the peritoneum" and was buried after a post-mortem.

From BBC

The mesentery is a double fold of the peritoneum, the lining of the abdominal cavity, which attaches the stomach, small intestine, colon and other organs to the abdomen.

From BBC

The mesentery is a double fold of the peritoneum, which is the lining of the abdominal cavity.

From Time

"The bleeding is quite heavy, but I take my time... Opening the peritoneum, I injured the blind gut and had to sew it up," Rogozov wrote.

From BBC