umbilical hernia
Americannoun
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Charis Hill, a 35-year-old disability activist in Sacramento, California, has postponed two surgeries, a hysterectomy, and an umbilical hernia repair for over a year because Hill didn't feel safe.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2022
Leila Hackett had an umbilical hernia mesh repair in 2013.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2017
Melissa had developed an umbilical hernia near the end of the pregnancy — a painful condition that required bed rest, a trial for someone as active as she.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2010
The abdominal distention was often associated with a small umbilical hernia . . . watery diarrhea and a tendency to pass food unaltered.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fowler operated successfully for strangulated umbilical hernia on a patient of sixty-eight.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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