(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.
Herniotomy
Definition:
(n.) A cutting for the cure or relief of hernia; celotomy.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 901 patient, a long-term result of herniotomy performed within 1977-1987 was studied.
(2) At herniotomy a megaureter was discovered and a subsequent IVU demonstrated bilateral megaureters.
(3) Orchiopexy at about two years of age and early herniotomy, irrespective of age, is recommended and surgery may safely be carried out on an outpatient basis.
(4) Ninety-two consecutive infants aged up to 12 months underwent primary inguinal herniotomy over a 5-year period.
(5) Investigating premorbid background of the patients, the authors studied frequency and character of the most frequently encountered operative interventions--appendectomy, herniotomies, cholecystectomies, ectopic pregnancy, ulcer, which did not show special differences from the remaining population.
(6) A 3.5-year-old child with Cornelia de Lange syndrome presenting for orchidopexy and herniotomy received general anaesthesia which was supplemented by a caudal injection of bupivacaine.
(7) The influence on practice of a publication about a randomised clinical trial of chemonucleolysis (CNL) vs. herniotomy in patients with lumbar prolapsed intervertebral disc was investigated, using a questionnaire sent to neurosurgeons and neurologists.
(8) Ninety-one cases of emergency herniotomy are reviewed as regards the short- and long-term results.
(9) The rest were iatrogenic traumas after laminectomy, herniotomy, and hip replacement as well as after urologic and gynecologic operations.
(10) Gentacycol ++ was also used for the prophylaxis in cholecystectomy, herniotomy and other conditions.
(11) Wound healing disorders accounted for 5.7 per cent and wound infections for 2.6 per cent relative to 192 cases of herniotomy.
(12) This study is a six year retrospective review of 397 herniotomies in 380 children up to the age of 10 years.
(13) Body temperature, P-cortisol, P-glucose, P-transferrin, haematocrit and total and differential leucocyte counts were investigated in 24 men undergoing inguinal herniotomy, but otherwise healthy.
(14) Fifty-two boys undergoing herniotomy, orchidopexy or ligation of patent processus vaginalis under general anaesthesia had supplementary analgesia; 26 had a caudal epidural block and 26 an ilioinguinal block.
(15) We suspect our results are typical of those to be found in any large British hospital and that with careful training and supervision of junior staff in the technique of inguinal herniotomy the results could be improved and approach those found in specialist paediatric units in America.
(16) The mortality of elective herniotomy was 0.016% in this series.
(17) Forty-nine boys scheduled for day-case inguinal herniotomy were studied to compare ilio-inguinal nerve block and wound infiltration for postoperative analgesia.
(18) Long term follow-up is necessary to assess incidence of recurrence after inguinal herniotomy in children.
(19) Body temperature, P-cortisol, P-glucose, P-transferrin, P-orosomucoid, P-IgM, hematocrit and total and differential leucocyte counts were investigated in 16 men undergoing inguinal herniotomy.
(20) In a retrospective analysis the long-term results--mean 13 years--after herniotomy and Bassini-repair are discussed.