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Definition: Hernia |
HerniaNoun1. Rupture in smooth muscle tissue through which a bodily structure protrudes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hernia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Hernia \Her"ni*a\, noun; plural English Hernias, from Latin expression Herni[ae]. [Latin expression]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Protrusion of a loop or knuckle of an organ or tissue through an abnormal opening. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The most common hernias, by a generous margin, are inguinal hernias, both direct and indirect. Inguinal hernias are hernias involving a defect in the inguinal canal (in the lower abdomen). Inguinal hernias are more common in males than females.
Indirect inguinal hernias are more common in the young as it is due to a congenital defect in the processes vaginalis whilst direct inguinal hernias are more common in the elderly as they are cause by mechanical breakdown of the fascia over many years.
Terms used to describe a hernia:
reducible - the hernial contents can be returned to their normal site
irreducible
incarcerated - a.k.a. irreducible; the contents are fixed within the hernial sac
strangulated - incarcerated hernia with ischaemia of contents; often associated with signs and symptoms of intestinal obstruction
complete hernia - hernia sac and contents protrude all the way through the defect
incomplete hernia - hernial contents do not protrude completely
Types of hernias
Common or important hernia types in bold.
Reference: Surgical recall, 2nd edition, by Lorne. H. Blackbourne, published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hernia."
Synonym: HerniaSynonym: herniation (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | If I lifted dumbbells like those, I would get a hernia the size of the San Andreas Fault. (Manhattan Murder Mystery; writing credit: Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman. Starring Woody Allen as Larry Lipton, Diane Keaton as Carol Lipton, Alan Alda as Ted, and Anjelica Huston as Marcia Fox.) I know all about your woman's troubles there, Edith, but when I had the hernia that time, I didn't make you wear the truss. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) Thanks, Mom. We've gotta get up early, anyway, and work on MacArthur's hernia. (M*A*S*H; writing credit: Larry Gelbart) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Motion pictures in medicine. : Filming of an operation for the repair of a hernia at Walter Reed Hospital.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | You should not worry about having a hiatal hernia. (references) | |
In such cases, the doctor may recommend surgery to repair the hiatal hernia. (references) | ||
An inguinal hernia occurs in the groin (the area between the abdomen and thigh). (references) | ||
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| "Hernia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hernia" is used about 198 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 198 | 21,729 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "hernia": diaphragmatic hernia ♦ have a hernia ♦ hernia belt ♦ Hiatal Hernia ♦ hiatus hernia ♦ Incarcerated hernia ♦ Inguinal Hernia ♦ strangulated hernia ♦ traumatic diaphragmatic hernia ♦ umbilical hernia. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "hernia": double-hernia. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hernia | 3,505 |
hiatal hernia | 1,622 |
inguinal hernia | 442 |
hernia symptom | 294 |
umbilical hernia | 278 |
hernia surgery | 183 |
hernia repair | 121 |
abdominal hernia | 102 |
ventral hernia | 94 |
femoral hernia | 84 |
de disco hernia | 81 |
incisional hernia | 71 |
hernia discal | 57 |
diaphragmatic hernia | 54 |
hernia operation | 49 |
hiatel hernia | 43 |
stomach hernia | 42 |
hernia picture | 41 |
spigelian hernia | 38 |
epigastric hernia | 35 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hernia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | beklemde breuk (strangulated, strangulated hernia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | hernie (rupture), dhjamth, dhjamë (fat, grease, render, rupture, tallow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فتق (herniation, rupture, unseam), فتاق مرض (rupture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | херния (rupture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 疝" (Herniae, Hernias), 疝 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | hernie, kýla (rupture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | hernie, hernia, brok (reject). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hernia (rupture, rupturewort). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | entordita hernio (strangulated hernia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فتق(طب), مرض فتق , غری . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tyrä, kohju. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | hernie (hernia(?)). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | leistenbruch (inguinal hernia, rupture), hernie, Hernia, bruch (breach, breaching, break, breakage, breaking, burst, cold break, crack, crevasse, failure, fault, faulting, fold, fraction, fracture, fragment, infringement, lump, piece, quarry, rupture, scrap, split, violation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κήλη (rupture, rupturewort). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | בקיע (breach, chap, chasm, crack, cranny, crevice, fissile, fissure), בקע (crevasse, fissure, fragment, rift, rupture, split). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sérv. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tedun, burut. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ernia (rupture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 脱腸 (herniation), ヘブライ語 (health, health center, health check, health club, health food, health meter, healthy, heart, heaven, Hebrew, helicopter, Helios, helioscope, heliotrope, heliport, helium, helix, hell, Hellenism, hellfire, helm, helmet, Helmholtz, help, helper, Helsinki, hem, hemline, hemoglobin, hemstitch, hen party, Henckels, henna, Hepburn, Herakles, herald, Hercules, Hermes, heroin, herpangina, herringbone, Herzogovina, Hz, Mr, Switzerland, type of massage parlor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ヘルニア , っちょう (herniation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 탈장 (Herniae, Hernias). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | brishey brooinney (rupture, ruptured). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | brokk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erniahay hernia (rupture, rupturewort), hérnia (breach, hero, rupture), hérnia, garça-real (grey heron, herpes). (various references) hernie (breach, rupture). (various references) грыжа (rupture). (various references) hernija, kila (bubonocele). (various references) hernia (rupture). (various references) bråck (rupture). (various references) fıtık (rupture). (various references) грижа. (various references) bors. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | hernia. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hernia": herniae, hernial, hernias, herniate, herniated, herniates, herniating, herniation, herniations. (additional references) | |
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"Hernia" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Charniak, Charonia, Chernyak, ernia, Haniya, Hanzira, Haria, harina, Harunda, heni, Henia, Henigan, henix, Henric, herenia, Herennium, herian, Herisau, hermia, Hermida, Hernad, hernea, herniae, hernie, hernyia, Heronim, hertia, Herunga, herzi, Herziana, Hiraiwa, Hiranya, Horia, hornia, Huarina, hurnia, huronian, hyrnia, neronian, Pernia, phrenic, Sharniad. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hernia" (pronounced her"nēu) |
| 3 | -n ē u | apnea, cornea, Eugenia, gonia, insignia, insomnia, mania, megalomania, millennia, neurasthenia, petunia, pollinia, schizophrenia, Sinfonia, vaccinia, Xenia, Zinnia. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-n-r" | |
-2 letters: airn, earn, haen, hair, hare, hear, heir, hern, hire, near, rain, rani, rein, rhea. | |
-3 letters: ain, air, ane, ani, are, ear, era, ern, hae, hen, her, hie, hin, ire, nae, nah, rah, ran, rei, ria, rin. | |
-4 letters: ae, ah, ai, an, ar, eh, en, er, ha, he, hi, in, na, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: archine, hairnet, handier, harmine, hearing, heparin, herniae, hernial, hernias, inearth, inhaler. | |
+2 letters: adhering, antherid, antihero, archines, banisher, chairmen, chancier, chicaner, earthing, enravish, hairline, hairnets, hangfire, hardline, harmines, havering, hearings, hearsing, hearting, heparins, herniate, hibernal, inarched, inarches, inearths, ingather, inhalers, inhauler, narghile, nargileh, perianth, reaching, seraphin, shearing, unhaired, vanisher. | |
+3 letters: abhenries, allethrin, anarchies, anchorite, anhydride, anhydrite, anorthite, antechoir, antherids, archfiend, ashlering, banishers, branchiae, branchier, breaching, breathing, chagrined, chantries, chariness, chicaners, chicanery, chinaware, chronaxie, earthling, eutherian, fashioner, fathering, fisherman, franchise, garnished, garnishee, garnishes, gathering, gheraoing, hagridden, hairiness, hairlines, haltering, hammering, hampering, handwrite, hangfires, hankering, harbinger, hardening, hardiment, hardiness, harkening, harlequin, harmonies, harmonise, harmonize, headliner, heralding, herniated, herniates, hibernate, hindrance, hoariness, humanizer, hurricane, hydrazine, hymnaries, inbreathe, inearthed, ingathers, inhabiter, inhaulers, kashering, lathering, machinery, mishanter, narghiles, nargilehs, naughtier, nephridia, nightmare, nightwear, parhelion, paunchier, perianths, philander, planisher, preaching, printhead, raincheck, raunchier, refashion, rehabbing, rehanging, rehashing, rehearing, reheating, reinhabit, reshaping, reshaving, rewashing, rhatanies, rhodamine, searching, senhorita, shearings, shearling, shrinkage, snatchier, tarnished, tarnishes, threadfin, threading, threaping, threating, trichinae, unhandier, unhappier, vanishers, varnished, varnisher, varnishes, wreathing. | |
+4 letters: achondrite, admonisher, allethrins, anchorites, anglerfish, anhydrides, anhydrites, anorthites, antechoirs, antheridia, anthracite, antiheroes, antiheroic, antiherpes, antihunter, archegonia, archfiends, becharming, blandisher, blathering, branchiest, branchline, brandished, brandishes, breathings, cashiering, catarrhine, chaffering, chagrinned, chairmaned, chairwomen, chambering, chamfering, chanceries, chandelier, chaptering, charminger, chartering, chattering, chinaberry, chinawares, chloramine, chlorinate, chronaxies, cochairmen, disenthral, dishearten, earthiness, earthlings, earthshine, enchiridia, endarchies, enharmonic, enravished, enravishes, euphoriant, euryhaline, eutherians, fashioners, feathering, franchised, franchisee, franchiser, franchises, garishness, garnisheed, garnishees, gatherings, gynarchies, handwrites, harbingers, hardenings, hardiments, harlequins, harmonised, harmonises, harmonized, harmonizer, harmonizes, harnessing, harshening, harvesting, headliners, headspring, hearkening, heartening, heartiness, heavenlier, hebraizing, hemipteran, herniating, herniation, hibernated, hibernates, hibernator, hierophant, highlander, hindrances, hinterland, hoarsening, honoraries, housetrain, humanizers, hurricanes, hydrazines, hypermania, hypermanic, hypertonia, inbreathed, inbreathes, inearthing, ingathered, inhabiters, interchain, interfaith, interphase, inthralled, ironhanded, languisher, leathering, longhaired, maidenhair, marshiness, mechanizer, mishanters, mishearing, monarchies, nalorphine, nephridial, nightmares, nomarchies, outhearing, overhating, pathfinder, philanders, pinfeather, planishers, prehearing, preheating, preshaping, prewashing, printheads, radiophone, rainchecks, rainwashed, rainwashes, rakishness, ratcheting, raunchiest, ravishment, rechanging, recharging, recharting, refashions, rehandling, rehearings, rehearsing, rehumanize, reinhabits, rematching, repatching, rephrasing, reteaching, revanchism, revanchist, rhizoplane, rhodamines, ringhalses, saccharine, sapphirine, senhoritas, shanghaier, sharpening, shattering, shearlings, shrinkable, shrinkages, slathering, springhead, straighten, thorianite, threadfins, trashiness, unearthing, unravished, upreaching, vanquisher, varnishers, vibraphone, vinegarish, wardenship, weathering, wharfinger. | |
+5 letters: achondrites, admonishers, amaranthine, amenorrheic, anorthosite, antheridial, antheridium, anthracites, antiheroine, antiphrases, antistrophe, apomorphine, archangelic, archegonial, archegonium, archenemies, atherogenic, bearishness, blandishers, botheration, brainwashed, brainwasher, brainwashes, branchlines, breathiness, cantharides, catarrhines, chairmanned, chairperson, chamberlain, chandeliers, chandleries, chansonnier, chanticleer, chaperoning, charinesses, charmingest, chicaneries, chiromancer, chiropteran, chivareeing, chloramines, chlorinated, chlorinates, chrominance, cliffhanger, dehydrating, dehydration, diachronies, disenthrall, disenthrals, disheartens, earthliness, earthmoving, earthshines, encroaching, enfranchise, enravishing, enthralling, enwreathing, euchromatin, euphoriants, exhortation, farthingale, featherings, fisherwoman, foremanship, franchisees, franchisers, gangsterish, garnishment, generalship, graphicness, hairinesses, handicapper, handwringer, handwritten, harbingered, hardinesses, harebrained, harmonizers, headsprings, heartstring, hebephrenia, hemipterans, heparinized, hereinabove, hereinafter, herniations, heteroauxin, hibernacula, hibernating, hibernation, hibernators, hierophants, highlanders, hindquarter, hinterlands, hoarinesses, housetrains, husbandries, hydralazine, hypercapnia, hypercapnic, hypermanias, hypermnesia, hypersaline, hypertonias, icosahedron, inbreathing, ingathering, inharmonies, inheritable, inheritance, interbranch, interchains, interchange, interparish, interphases, intrathecal, ironhearted, kindhearted, kitchenware, languishers, lionhearted, machineries, maidenhairs, managership, marchioness, mechanizers, menorrhagia, merchandise, merchandize, merchanting, metanephric, metanephroi, misanthrope, nailbrushes, nalorphines, nearsighted, necrophilia, negrophobia, neuropathic, nightwalker, ninnyhammer, outreaching, overarching, overhanding, overhanging, overhauling, overheaping, overhearing, overheating, parenthesis, parenthetic, parishioner, partnership, pathfinders, pentarchies, perionychia, philandered, philanderer, philodendra, pinfeathers, planisphere, platyrrhine, preachiness, preachingly, prehearings, radiophones, raffishness, raunchiness, ravishments, reattaching, rebranching, refashioned, regathering, rehammering, rehardening, rehumanized, rehumanizes, rehydrating, rehydration, reinhabited, relaunching, renographic, reproaching, researching, rethreading, retinopathy, revanchisms, revanchists, rhetorician, rhizoplanes, searchingly, semaphoring, senatorship, shanghaiers, shinplaster, shivareeing, springheads, starchiness, straightens, swarthiness, tarnishable, thorianites, threadiness, threatening, throatiness, traineeship, transhipped, ungarnished, unhealthier, untarnished, unthreading, unvarnished, unwreathing, upgathering, vanquishers, vibraphones, wardenships, warehousing, weatherings, wharfingers, xiphisterna. | |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .-. -. .. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01110010 01101110 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e r n i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0072 006E 0069 0061 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)427184807567 |
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