Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The protrusion of an organ or other bodily structure through the wall that normally contains it; a rupture.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In surgery, a tumor formed by the displacement and protrusion of a part which has escaped from its natural cavity by some aperture, and projects externally; rupture: as, hernia of the brain, of the thorax, or of the abdomen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A protrusion, consisting of an organ or part which has escaped from its natural cavity, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also
rupture . - noun a hernia so tightly compressed in some part of the channel through which it has been protruded as to arrest its circulation, and produce swelling of the protruded part. It may occur in recent or chronic hernia, but is more common in the latter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pathology A
disorder in which a part of the bodyprotrudes abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part, especially of theabdomen .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun rupture in smooth muscle tissue through which a bodily structure protrudes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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DESCRIPTION: Although the term hernia applies to any protrusion of an organ outside the cavity that normally contains it, the usual meaning is an abnormal protrusion of intestines through an opening in the abdominal cavity.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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Accordingly, in the pathology of Gilbert, the term hernia is applied to hydrocele, orchitis and other diseases of the testicle, and not, as with us to protrusions of the viscera through the walls of their cavities.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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The best known members of this small group are the openings through the abdominal wall, which, originally placed at the strongest and safest position in the quadrupedal attitude, are now, in the erect attitude, at the weakest and most dangerous, and furnish opportunity for those serious and sometimes fatal escapes of portions of the intestines which we call hernia; the tonsils; and our friend the _appendix vermiformis_.
Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896
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He adds also: "Some doubt the propriety of using the term hernia for an inflation.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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Sometimes, they can detect the plastic implanted in my abdomen to repair a hernia from a prior surgery, but other times the miss the plastic.
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To heal the multi-cultural team hernia is to reconcile the nations.
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The multi-cultural team hernia is a hernia of the mind caused by the need to process through culture and sin on the multi-cultural team, and those times when the two mix together like yeast and dough.
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Young could be activated May 8 if his hernia is sufficiently healed.
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Larkin, limited to 44 games last season because of a groin pull and a "sports hernia," is showing no aftereffects.
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Although the word hernia can be construed to mean the protrusion of any viscus from its natural cavity through normal or artificial openings in the surrounding structures, the usual meaning of the word is protrusion of the abdominal contents through the parietes -- what is commonly spoken of as rupture.
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