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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In surgery, a hernial tumor, in any situation, whose contents are a portion of the intestines.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) A hernial tumor whose contents are intestine.

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  • noun pathology An intestinal hernia

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entero- + -cele

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