(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.
Incarceration
Definition:
(n.) The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
(n.) Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.
(n.) A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
Example Sentences:
(1) We based our approach on the anteroposterior location of the incarceration site and the amount of retina incarcerated into the wound.
(2) She said it was impossible to attribute the increase in Indigenous women’s incarceration rates to one specific factor, but law and order policies of federal and state governments should be examined.
(3) Some prominent US militia leaders are distancing themselves from the armed occupation, which is a protest against Monday’s incarceration of two local ranchers, father and son Dwight and Steven Hammond.
(4) We are saying enough is enough.” Hundreds of protesters appeared to have joined the march, carrying banners that said “adalet” or “justice” as they set out on the 280 mile (450km) trek that will take them to Maltepe prison, where Enis Berberoğlu has been incarcerated.
(5) The central hypothesis of our study, then, was that psychotic men, charged with misdemeanor offenses, would be incarcerated for significantly longer periods of time, prior to trial, than their nonpsychotic fellows.
(6) If correctional institutions constrain inmates' access to social benefits, means exist to protect incarcerated people's rights in health studies.
(7) In the last 8 years 15 cases of Meckel's diverticulum were observed, 6 of them with complications: three times inflammation (with two perforations), each once invagination, incarceration and occult bleeding from carcinoids.
(8) The gray scale ultrasonic findings in a case of incarcerated Spigelian hernia are presented.
(9) A similar observation was made when there was an incarceration of the vitreous to the surgical wound.
(10) Often incarceration masks the environmental stimuli, resulting in not only early release but a false clinical prognosis for success.
(11) When we compared ARD in patients whose cataract extractions had been complicated by vitreous incarceration with those ARDs following uncomplicated cataract surgery, we found that the characteristics of the detachments were very similar.
(12) It was hypothesized that incarcerated adolescents would have significantly higher levels of isolation, normlessness, powerlessness, and total alienation than would nonincarcerated adolescents.
(13) For these offenses, SST was as acceptable as aversive treatments and incarceration.
(14) The tumor was 5 cm in length and incarcerated into the stomach with an elongated stalk at operation.
(15) This is a well recognised complication of indirect inguinal hernia and a common complication of incarceration.
(16) I’m not going to put a deadline on it,” he said last week of her incarceration.
(17) Changing Rooms and Ground Force – market- leaders in the home make-over genre that was the telly sensation in the decade before incarceration game-shows – ran from 1996 to 2004 and 1997 to 2005 respectively.
(18) The risk of rare cases of incarcerated diaphragmatic hernia should be considered after proximal gastric resection.
(19) Most patients require resection of the incarcerated bowel.
(20) Limited opportunities for exercising self-control while incarcerated may encourage helplessness.