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hernia

noun as in rupture

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Twenty-eight staff members and four inmates, including Garcia, suffered injuries ranging from cuts and bruises to a hernia and serious head trauma.

At that point hospitals had cancelled all their usual planned work – from hip replacements to hernia repairs.

From BBC

After surgery in January to repair a sports hernia, Seager played only the final three spring training games.

A man discovered a medical specimen bag had been left inside his stomach after his hernia surgery, the BBC has found.

From BBC

Carey had been in and out of emergency rooms and testing labs and talking to medical officials for 18 months, with heart issues, swallowing problems, a hernia and assorted other joys of elderhood.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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