(n.) 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; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also rupture.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aetiological factors concerned in the production of paraumbilical and epigastric hernias have been reviewed along structural--functional lines.
(2) A paraesophageal hernia may be life-threatening and requires surgical correction when diagnosed.
(3) In all cases Richter's hernia was at the internal inguinal ring.
(4) The authors propose three regular procedures with which they are experienced: repair with a large retromuscular nonabsorbable synthetic tulle prosthesis for extensive epigastric eventrations, fillup aponeuroplasty using the sheath of the rectus abdominis associated with a premuscular patch in case of diastasis or of multiple superimposed orifices and suture associated with a small retromuscular auxiliary patch to treat small incisional hernias.
(5) Especially in the old patients (over 70 years) the incisional hernias represents an invalidating pathology whose treatment, for the high incidence of associated diseases of respiratory and cardiocirculatory apparatus in the aged, offers difficulties connected both to surgical methods and to the perioperative evaluation and preparation of patients.
(6) Four presented with diaphragmatic hernia and died in the neonatal period.
(7) Spigelian hernias continue to be misdiagnosed preoperatively, often forgotten in the differential diagnosis, as physical examination is usually of little benefit.
(8) The hernia ring, which was located medially to the suture line of previous herniorraphy, had strangulated the herniated bladder.
(9) It seems likely that diaphragmatic hernia is a non-specific consequence of several teratological processes.
(10) The majority of the scans revealed a reduction of the herniation, while 16 of the patients still had a hernia.
(11) This, in principle, is similar to creating an irreducible hernia.
(12) A horse with a parietal hernia and a horse with intestinal stragulation were treated surgically; in the latter, the involved intestine was resected.
(13) One goat anesthetized with thiamylal sodium, xylazine, and halothane for repair of an abominal hernia, and 7 of 29 goats similarly anesthetized for an experiment unrelated to considerations of anesthesia, developed signs of hepatic failure within 24 hours of anesthesia.
(14) The most frequent causes of failure of nucleolysis were lateral osseous stenosis (19 cases) and sub-ligamentous hernia (17 cases), apparently due to the ineffectiveness of the enzyme.
(15) Peritoneography was performed in 122 patients clinically suspected of hernia without definite palpation findings.
(16) The sexual adjustment of 91 married men (ranging in age from 51 to 77) who had undergone either transurethral prostatectomy or inguinal hernia repair was compared using the same measures and experimental design.
(17) Developmental A. Bochdalek hernia (pseudocavity) IV.
(18) It use will enlarge the choices of procedures best suited to the needs of a specific hernia.
(19) diastasis recti abdominis with pericardial hernia, ventral defect of the diaphragm, partial defect of the sternum, and tetralogy of Fallot.
(20) We have studied the epidemiology of inguinal hernias in preterm infants.
Hernial
Definition:
(a.) Of, or connected with, hernia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both apertures were repaired with great caution using individual sutures without resection of the hernial sac.
(2) The surgeon must have an exact idea of this canal before undertaking operation for plastics of the hernial defect.
(3) It is important in the primary operation to individualize the type of operative procedure to the specific hernial problem.
(4) A hernial sac originating from the peritoneum near the oesophagogastric junction contained the midgut which had herniated through the oesophageal hiatus.
(5) Review of the surgical pathologic specimen showed that both hernial sacs did indeed contain segments of vas deferens structures, which based on the findings at reexploration, were consistent with duplication or embryonic remnants of the vas deferens.
(6) Overt manifestations mandating surgical intervention and isolation of the inflammatory process in the inguinoscrotal region are important factors responsible for the significantly better prognosis for neonatal hernial versus intraabdominal appendicitis.
(7) The hernial sac was filled out by the corpus of the uterus.
(8) The lower portion was inactive and represented the true hernial sac.
(9) The observed cases were described in details in respect to localization and size of defects, hernial content, clinical course, pathologicoanatomic examination and causes of lethal outcome.
(10) Retrograde barium flow from hernial sac into the tubular esophagus was not seen when such a contractile A-ring was evident.
(11) Twenty-seven (55%) patients had evidence of haemorrhage (acute in 15; chronic in 12) from the hiatal hernial ulcer at presentation.
(12) To reduce lymphorrhea the autodermic graft was covered with a hernial sac on a pedicle.
(13) The herniated large bowel was reduced from the thoracic cavity and the hernial sac was excised.
(14) The filling of hernial sacs, outlining extraluminal tumors and the subphrenic space are considered to be the most important clinical indications for this simple and harmless method investigation.
(15) Rarely, obstruction of portal and hepatic venous flow at the hernial ring may cause liquid to accumulate in the right side of the chest.
(16) On four occasions the hernial content was appreciated, only one of which required resection.
(17) We present a case of a right-sided hernial incarceration of the colonoscope that would not permit reduction of the hernia nor removal of the instrument by conventional means.
(18) The absence of hydrocephalus in the first case may be ascribed either to the greater distensibility of the encephalocele, or to the displacement of the choroid plexuses from the intracranial portion of the common ventricle into the hernial sac.
(19) Later, surgical treatment for the bladder hernia was performed by replacing the bladder into the pelvic cavity and closing the hernial ring without resection of the bladder wall.
(20) A narrow hernial neck was found in 33% of recurrent direct inguinal hernias.