👉 The term "peripneustic" is often used in medicine to describe a condition where there are two or more areas of the body that are affected simultaneously, but they can be separated by space. This can happen when one area of the body has a certain disease or condition and another area does not, potentially due to a lack of response or treatment for the first area. In the context of peripneustic conditions, doctors may refer to this as "multiple organ failure" because