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hernia Path.|ˈhɜːnɪə|
Pl. herniæ, hernias. Also 4–5 hirnia, -ya, hyrnya, 6 (Anglicized) herny, -ie.
[L. = rupture. Cf. F. hernie.]
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 containing cavity; rupture.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋349 Horrible swollen membres that semeth lik the maladie of Hirnia. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 273 If hernia be watri, þis is þe signe þerof. 1547Boorde Brev. Health clxxvi. 62 b, There be thre kindes named..a wateryshe herny, a wyndy hernye, a fleshely herny. 1578Lyte Dodoens i. lx. 87 Hernies, Ruptures, or burstings. 1605B. Jonson Volpone iii. v, That I had Nestor's hernia thou wouldst think. 1727–51Chambers Cycl. s.v., Hernia's are often occasioned by blows, violent concussions, over-stretching in vomiting [etc.]. 1878T. Bryant Pract. Surg. I. 644 Abdominal hernia or rupture signifies the protrusion of any viscus through an opening in the parietes of the abdominal cavity.
b. attrib., as hernia knife, hernia truss.
1878T. Bryant Pract. Surg. I. 663 With a hernia knife,..or herniotome, the stricture should then be divided. |