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, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also rupture. Strangulated hernia, a hernia so tightly compressed in some part of the channel through which it has been pro…

Of, or connected with, hernia.

A hernia; a rupture.

An inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo.

A rupture of hernia; a breach.

A plant (Herniaria glabra) supposed to be valuable for the cure of hernia or rupture.

The act or operation of cutting, to relieve the structure in strangulated hernia. [Frequently written kelotomy.]

Hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes; vesical hernia.

Hernia of the brain.

A hernial tumor whose contents are intestine.

Incision of the intestines, especially in reducing certain cases of hernia.

Hernia of the liver.

A cutting for the cure or relief of hernia; celotomy.

To confine; to shut up or inclose; to hem in. Incarcerated hernia (Med.), hernia in which the constriction can not be easily reduced.

Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.

to, or in the region of, the inguen or groin; as, an inguinal canal or ligament; inguinal hernia. Inguinal ring. See Abdominal ring, under Abdominal.

ent state; incapable of restoration to its proper or normal condition; as, an irreducible hernia.

t. He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment. Ps. lxxii. 2. Hernia. I would my father look'd but with my eyes. Theseus. Rather your eyes must with his judgment look. Shak.

A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions.

Hernia in the thigh; femoral hernia .