Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or connected with hernia. Also hernious.

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

  • adjective Of, or connected with, hernia.

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  • adjective Of or relating to a hernia.

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Examples

  • A hernial sound rises from each page, as if the author were hoisting a world of scholarship onto his shoulders, and to his credit, that labor produces a stream of insights.

    When Sinatra had the world on a string Louis Bayard 2010

  • A hernial sound rises from each page, as if the author were hoisting a world of scholarship onto his shoulders, and to his credit, that labor produces a stream of insights.

    When Sinatra had the world on a string Louis Bayard 2010

  • During one particularly intense session of meditation, the patient had a vivid recollection of being three years old, and suffering a severe double hernial rupture, caused by a weakening of the muscles in the pelvic region.

    Meditation as Medicine M.D. Dharma Singh Khalsa 2001

  • During one particularly intense session of meditation, the patient had a vivid recollection of being three years old, and suffering a severe double hernial rupture, caused by a weakening of the muscles in the pelvic region.

    Meditation as Medicine M.D. Dharma Singh Khalsa 2001

  • The transversalis fascia investing the upper part of the hernial sac;

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The change is merely caused by the weight and gravitation of the hernial mass, which bends the epigastric artery, 9*, from its first position on the inner margin of the internal ring, 1, till it assumes the place 9.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The peculiarity of this hernia, as distinguished from the congenital form, is owing to the scrotum containing two sacs, -- the tunica vaginalis and the proper sac of the hernia; whereas, in the congenital variety, the tunica vaginalis itself becomes the hernial sac by a direct reception of the naked intestine.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The neck or inlet of the hernial sac, H, Fig. 2, Plate 43, exactly represents the natural form of the crural ring, as formed in the fibrous membrane external to, or (as seen in this view) beneath the peritonaeum.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The epigastric artery passing between the two hernial sacs

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The hernial sac, invested by h, the elongation of the fascia transversalis, or funnel-shaped sheath.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

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