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It offers but few conditions peculiar to itself, save in typhoid fever, and the ease with which it contrives to become kinked, or intussuscepted, producing obstruction, or to take part in hernial protrusions.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

The peritoneum of hydrocele and hernial sacs and of the omentum readily lends itself to transplantation.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis

In other cases the womb escapes through a great laceration of the abdominal muscles to one side of the udder, and the hernial mass extends down to one side of that organ.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

It is often stated that a ganglion originates from a hernial protrusion of the synovial membrane of a joint or tendon sheath.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis

Special clamps are provided for taking up the fold of the skin covering the hernial sac and holding it until the adhesion is formed.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.