HIATAL HERNIA


Meaning of HIATAL HERNIA in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: circa 1944

: protrusion of part of the stomach upward into the chest cavity through the passage in the diaphragm for the esophagus usually with movement of the opening of the esophagus into the stomach to a position above the diaphragm — called also hiatus hernia

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