Hernia

Definition: Hernia

Hernia

Noun

1. 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)

Health

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Hernia

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.

Crosswords: Hernia

Danish (hernia), Dutch (hernia), German (hernia), Latin (a rupture, hernia), Spanish (hernia, rupture).

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)

How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border (1949)

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References

• The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Hiatal Hernia (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Hernia (reference)

• Hernia Repair Without Disability (reference)

• Hiatus Hernia (Thorson's Natural Health) (reference)

• Incisional Hernia (reference)

• Laparoscopic Hernia Repair (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• What You Should Know About Hernia Sur (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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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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)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; 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.

Ending with "hernia": double-hernia.

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

Portuguese

hernia (rupture, rupturewort), hérnia (breach, hero, rupture), hérnia, garça-real (grey heron, herpes). (various references)

Romanian

hernie (breach, rupture). (various references)

Russian 

грыжа (rupture). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

hernija, kila (bubonocele). (various references)

Spanish

hernia (rupture). (various references)

Swedish

bråck (rupture). (various references)

Turkish

fıtık (rupture). (various references)

Ukranian 

грижа. (various references)

Welsh

bors. (various references)

hernia. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "hernia": herniae, hernial, hernias, herniate, herniated, herniates, herniating, herniation, herniations. (additional references)

Misspellings

"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 (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-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.

+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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