retrograde hernia

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A hernia of two loops of intestine, with the portion of intestine between the loops lying in the abdominal cavity.

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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

The whole hand-to-the-mouth gasping thing we do when learning that women go see these films is horribly retrograde.
'Guardians of the Galaxy' Is Not a Watershed Moment for Women|Kevin Fallon|August 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But more often, the inclusion of people of color is limited or mitigated by oddly retrograde cultural politics.
Scarlett Johansson Vs. the Faceless Men of Color|Teo Bugbee|July 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Mainline Protestant denominations are in marked decline and Evangelical Christianity is in slow retrograde.
Demographics Or Destiny in 2016|Lloyd Green|March 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This, lest we forget, remains the modern prototype for a quintessentially retrograde act.
Don't Let the Maccabees Win|Matt Lerner|December 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST

The long-time Washington Post columnist has, again, used his valuable real estate to give retrograde opinions on race.
Read Richard Cohen Project His Racism on Social Conservatives|Jamelle Bouie|November 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
One retrograde or timid step would open the eyes of men, and bring down ruin on the Pantamorphica.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
One of these is the liability to inguinal hernia, or rupture, which leads to much suffering and frequent death in man.
Man And His Ancestor|Charles Morris
He executes with speed, and even with ease, all direct motion; but he has no facility for oblique or retrograde motions.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VII (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Hernia was Chauliac's specialty, and in it his surgical judgment is admirable.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine|James J. Walsh
Chauliac discussed operations for hernia very conservatively.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine|James J. Walsh