When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Femoral hernia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femoral_hernia

    Thus, an irreducible, obstructed hernia can also be called an incarcerated one." [5] "Incarcerated hernia is a hernia that cannot be reduced. These may lead to bowel obstruction but are not associated with vascular compromise." [6] A hernia can be described as reducible if the contents within the sac can be pushed back through the defect into ...

  3. Maydl's hernia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maydl's_hernia

    It is more often seen in men, and predominantly on the right side. Maydl's hernia should be suspected in patients with large incarcerated herniae and in patients with evidence of intra-abdominal strangulation or peritonitis. Postural or manual reduction of the hernia is contra-indicated as it may result in non-viable bowel being missed. [2]

  4. Hernia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernia

    Sciatic hernia: this hernia in the greater sciatic foramen most commonly presents as an uncomfortable mass in the gluteal area. Bowel obstruction may also occur. This type of hernia is only a rare cause of sciatic neuralgia. Sports hernia: a hernia characterized by chronic groin pain in athletes and a dilated superficial inguinal ring.

  5. Inguinal hernia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inguinal_hernia

    An inguinal hernia or groin hernia is a hernia (protrusion) of abdominal cavity contents through the inguinal canal. Symptoms, which may include pain or discomfort especially with or following coughing, exercise, or bowel movements , are absent in about a third of patients.

  6. California State Prison, Los Angeles County - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Prison...

    The only state prison located in the county, it is also referenced as Los Angeles County State Prison, CSP-Los Angeles County, and CSP-LAC. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Only occasionally is the prison referred to as Lancaster State Prison , which was particularly avoided in 1992 partly to ease the stigma for Lancaster.

  7. Inguinal hernia surgery - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inguinal_hernia_surgery

    Inguinal hernia surgery is an operation to repair a weakness in the abdominal wall that abnormally allows abdominal contents to slip into a narrow tube called the inguinal canal in the groin region. There are two different clusters of hernia: groin and ventral (abdominal) wall. Groin hernia includes femoral, obturator, and inguinal. [1]

  8. De Garengeot's hernia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Garengeot's_hernia

    De Garengeot's hernia is a rare subtype of an incarcerated femoral hernia. This eponym may be used to describe the incarceration of the vermiform appendix within a femoral hernia . [ 1 ] This mechanism is contrasted with the Amyand hernia, in which the appendix protrudes through an inguinal hernia.

  9. List of California county jails - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_county...

    Los Angeles: 1708 2148 Los Angeles Men's Central Jail [35] Los Angeles: 3512 4506 Los Angeles North County Correctional Facility [36] Los Angeles: 2214 3783 Los Angeles Pitchess Detention Center East Facility [37] Los Angeles: 926 72 The facility is currently closed, but is being used as a fire camp. Los Angeles Pitchess North Facility [38] Los ...