- (n.) Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.
- (n.) The act of confining or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
- (n.) A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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