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hernia

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • /ˈhɜː(ɹ)niə/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)niə
  • CMU ARPABET: HH ER1 N IY0 AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A disorder in which a part of the body protrudes abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part, especially of the abdomen.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences

Examples

  • give someone a hernia
  • have a hernia

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

rupture in smooth muscle tissue through which a bodily structure protrudes

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: herniation

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: rupture

Narrower terms: colpocele, vaginocele, diverticulum, eventration, exomphalos, hiatus hernia, hiatal hernia, diaphragmatic hernia, inguinal hernia, keratocele, laparocele, umbilical hernia, omphalocele

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hernia (“protruded viscus”). See also yarn and cord.

Across languages

Translations

87 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: breuk — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Albanian: hernie — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Albanian: dhjamth — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Albanian: rrënxim — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Arabic: فَتْق (fatq) — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Armenian: աղեթափություն (aġetʻapʻutʻyun) — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Azerbaijani: dəbə — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Azerbaijani: yırtıq — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Azerbaijani: qrija — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Bashkir: бүҫер (büśer) — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Central Bikol: erniya — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Central Bikol: tagunton — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Bulgarian: херния (hernija) — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Catalan: hèrnia — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Chinese Mandarin: 疝氣 /疝气 (shànqì) — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Chinese Mandarin: 小腸串氣 /小肠串气 (xiǎocháng chuànqì) — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Czech: kýla — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Danish: brok — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Dutch: hernia — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Dutch: breuk — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Esperanto: hernio — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Estonian: song — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Finnish: tyrä — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • French: hernie — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Galician: hernia — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Georgian: თიაქარი (tiakari) — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • German: Bruch — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • German: Leistenbruch — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • German: Eingeweidebruch — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • German: Hernie — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Greek: κήλη (kíli) — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Ancient Greek: κήλη (kḗlē) — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Hebrew: בקע (béka) — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Hungarian: sérv — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Icelandic: haull — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Ingrian: grььža — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Irish: maidhm sheicne — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Irish: heirne — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Irish: snaidhm sheicne (strangulated) — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Italian: ernia — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Japanese: ヘルニア (herunia) — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Japanese: 脱腸 (datchō) — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Kazakh: жарық (jaryq) — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Khmer: ក្លន (klɑɑn) — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Kyrgyz: чурку (curku) — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Latin: hernia — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Latin: rāmex — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Lithuanian: išvarža — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Lithuanian: trūkis — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Maltese: bażwa — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Maltese: fetqa — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Maltese: ernja — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Māori: whaturama — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Navajo: hadzííyá — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Neapolitan: guàllara — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Neapolitan: guallecchia — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Neapolitan: ntoscia — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Neapolitan: pallone — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Neapolitan: paposcia — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Neapolitan: ruttura — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Norman: rompeuse — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Norwegian: brokk — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Plautdietsch: Bruch — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Polish: przepuklina — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Portuguese: hérnia — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Romanian: hernie — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Russian: гры́жа (grýža) — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Serbo-Croatian: ки̏ла — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Serbo-Croatian: kȉla — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Sicilian: guaḍḍra — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Sicilian: vaḍḍra — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Slovak: prietrž — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Spanish: hernia — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Swedish: bråck — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Tagalog: luslos — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Tamil: குடலிறக்கம் (kuṭaliṟakkam) — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Telugu: అవయవ గళనము (avayava gaḷanamu) — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Telugu: గిలక (gilaka) — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Thai: ไส้เลื่อน (sâi-lʉ̂ʉan) — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Turkish: fıtık — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Ottoman Turkish: فتق (fıtık) — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Ukrainian: гри́жа (hrýža) — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Uzbek: dabba — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Uzbek: churra — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Vietnamese: thoát vị — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Welsh: torllengig — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part
  • Welsh: torgest — part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part