Rupture that may result from heavy lifting

Usage examples of hernia.

If there is a protrusion of brain-substance itself, a condition known as hernia cerebri results.

He describes scrotal hernia under the name enterocele, and says that it is due either to a tearing or a stretching of the peritoneum.

Mason describes the case of a man of sixty-five who, after death by strangulated hernia, was opened, and two inches from the ileocecal valve was found an earthen egg-cup which he had swallowed.

Along with a dozen other visiting surgeons, Rich and Davenport had just finished watching a video of a laparoscopic hernia repair.

She had learned to do laparoscopic gallbladders as a resident but had continued to operate on hernias using the traditional method.

The woman subsequently enjoyed excellent health and, although she had a small ventral hernia, bore and nursed two children.

I would have enjoyed finding out what was going on with old Spenser, who was evidently capable of jogging without orthotics and lifting weights without acquiring a hernia.

As I write, the electorally most popular member of the Duma, a leading supporter of the ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, is one Anatoly Kashpirovsky - a faith healer who remotely cures diseases ranging from hernias to AIDS by glaring at you out of your television set.

Giovanni Ronconi, signed an affadavit on December 17, listing a long series of ailments: intermittent pulse indicating the general weakness of declining years, frequent vertigo, hypochondriacal melancholy, weakness of the stomach, diverse pains throughout the body, serious hernia with rupture of the peritoneum.

Farley, still in his brown-colored oilskins, fared much better, so she made sure he helped the draymen carry the heaviest pieces, including the upright piano that she hoped would leave him with a hernia the size of a turnip.

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It is but an ambuscaded enemy whose sole interest in life is to lie in wait for stray grapeseeds and employ them to breed strangulated hernia.

He sat Herapath in one corner of his triangular cabin, among the jars of squids in alcohol, and observed, 'Littleton, the hernia in the starboard watch, caught a fine coryphene this afternoon.

But then, when they walked along the street behind the house, the Via del Proconsolo, Edge noticed that every single shop was devoted to the display and sale of formidable canvas corsets and belly flatteners, and even uglier abdominal furniture constructed of india rubber, leather and cork—trusses, hernia belts, scrotum supporters—and he mildly suggested that the city fathers might have located Dante's presumed residence in a more high-minded neighborhood.

Sister Antolina lying in the convent bed, her guts trussed up, her arms akimbo and waiting for the Resurrection, waiting, waiting for life without hernia, without intercourse, without sin, without evil, meanwhile nibbling a few animal crackers, a pimento, some fancy olives, a little head cheese.