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HERNIA HERNIATION
~ HERNIA id+ | PROTRUSION or BULGE through an abnormal opening | ~ HERNIATION id+ | vern> RUPTURE or BREAK | see> RUPTURE the etymology of HERNIA is moot or perhaps from gr HERNOS = SPROUT other propose a link with ideas common with a "YARN or ROPE like" bulge in the groin hx> formerly the surgical repair of HERNIAE was RISKY and the male public was made fearful with myriads of advetisments by peddlers selling all sorts of "hernia reduction" contraptions that could avoid "THE INTESTINES FALLING INTO THE SCROTUM" med> MOST HERNIAE are CONGENITAL or are DUE TO WEAK SPOTS among the most severe herniae is the DIAPHRAGMANTIC see> BIRTH DEFECT FEMALES have FEMORAL see> FEMUR hernia called CRURAL or HERNIAE CRURALIS MALES have HERNIA INGUINALIS or SCROTALIS see> GROIN see> FEMUR |