Associations to the word «Hernia»

Wiktionary

HERNIA, noun. (pathology) A disorder in which a part of the body protrudes abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part, especially of the abdomen.

Dictionary definition

HERNIA, noun. Rupture in smooth muscle tissue through which a bodily structure protrudes.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope