A tumour formed by the displacement and resulting protrusion of a part of an organ through an aperture, natural or accidental, in the walls of its…

Medicine. A rupture, hernia.

A hernia; spec. an inguinal hernia extending into the scrotum. Also: a varicocele or hydrocele. In early use also with distinguishing Latin word.

Medicine. Hernia, esp. in the inguinal region (groin); an instance of this.

Burst state or quality; spec. rupture, hernia.

Hernia or rupture of the abdominal wall; an instance of this. Now rare.

Rupture, esp. of bodily tissue; an instance of this. Also figurative. Obsolete.

Medicine. A hernia, or the formation of a hernia, attributed to softening of the peritoneum. Obsolete.

spec. Rupture; hernia. Obsolete.

The state of being burst; rupture; hernia.

a hernia; cf. film-broke adj.

A hernia in the groin; an inguinal hernia.

the condition of having a hernia or ruptured abdominal wall.

= bursting, n.; rupture, hernia.

abdominal hernia.

Pathology and Surgery. Of a vessel, an intestine: Congested by constriction and the arrest of circulation. strangulated hernia n. a hernia so…

A hernia in the hypogastric region.

Protrusion as in a hernia.

(Medicine) (see quot. 1958).

Involving, associated with, or resulting from a surgical incision; esp. in incisional hernia.

a type of diaphragmatic hernia in which abdominal contents protrude into the chest through the foramen of Morgagni.