Middle English Dictionary Entry
hernia n.
Entry Info
| Forms | hernia n. Also hernie, hirnia. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Rupture, hernia; (b) an ulcer or a morbid growth on the testicles or scrotum; (c) ~ apostemale = (b); ~ aquosa (aquose), aquose (wateri) ~, hydrocele; ~ carnosa (carnose, carnous), fleshi ~, a morbid fleshy growth about the testicles; ~ humoralis (humorale), humoral ~, an ulcer caused by an excess of humors in the scrotum; ~ intestinalis, a rupture which lets the intestine into the scrotum; ~ varicosa (varicose), varicocele; ~ ventosa (ventose), windi ~, a flatulent ulcer or growth about the testicles; ~ ventralis (ventrale, of the guttes), umbilical hernia.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.424 : Allas! somme of hem shewen the shap, and the boce of the horrible swollen membres, that semeth lik the maladie of hirnia [vr. hyrnya], in the wrappynge of hire hoses.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)4b/a : Of apostemez..Of þe testicles which by a comoun name bene y-called hernie, i. brustyngez or ramicez.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)33b/b : Þe helpez of fleumatic apostemez sette aboue þat ar proffitable to þis & al hernias.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)143a/a : Causez of sich eminencez & signez ar þo þat ar of herniez & of Aneurisme.
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)47b/b : It is to be said here..of hernia & apostemez of ossei or of þe burse of þe testiculez, which by a comon name ar called hernie or ramicez.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)35a/b : Testudo is a grete exiture, moyste, softe..it is cleped..in þe testicles hernia.
c
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)269/24 : Whanne a mannes bowels falliþ into his ballokis leþeris..þan it is clepid hernia intestinalis.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)270/1-6 : Þer falliþ watir into þe same place [the scrotum]..& þan it is clepid hernia aquosa..þer comeþ wijnd into þe same place, & þan it is clepid hernia ventosa..sumtyme þer wexiþ fleisch..& þan it is clepid hernia carnosa..sumtyme þer ben veynes..ful of malancolious blood..& þan it is clepid hernia varicosa.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)6b/a : Of sikenessez of þe walle of þe wombe & of eminence of þe vmbelicus or of hernia uentrale [*Ch.(2): hernia of þe guttes & of zirbus].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)47b/b : Proprely apostemez ar said and beþ 5, viz., hernia humorale, ventose, aquose, carnose, & varicose.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)48a/a : Hernia humorale is aposteme hote or colde, sanious or noȝt sanious, gendred in þe burse of þe testiclez of humours not mych declinyng fro naturaltee.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)48a/a-b : Hernia aquose is aposteme aquose in þe burs of þe testiclez & ventose also..Signez of aquose hernie ar inflacioun & greuousnez..In euery hernia apostemale it is to be war of þe testiclez.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)48b/b : Hernia carnous..is said chiracioun of þe testiclez..of flesh bred byside ham, as varicose, which is a new name, is said organizacioun of veynez in ham out of kynde.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)143a/a : Eminence of þe vmbilic or hernia ventrale [*Ch.(2): hernya ventralis]..folweþ dome of hernies of testiclez.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)8b/b : Of þe humoral hernia & of þe watry & wyndy & of þe fleschi, it is I-saide in þe book of apostemes.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)51a/b-b/a : Hernia humoralis, i. an aposteme made of humours, and hernya aquosa, i. a watry aposteme, and hernya ventosa, i. a wyndy aposteme, and hernya carnosa, i. a fleschy aposteme, and hernya varicosa, i. aposteme in þe veynes.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)51b/b : And as þe watry hernya comeþ softely, right so þe wyndy hernya comeþ sodeynly.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)52b/a : The tokenes forsoþe of þe fleschy hernya ben hardnesse and bolnynge..Tokenes of hernia varicosa, i. ful of veynes, ben replecioun, i. fulnesse, of veynes lumprede to-gedre.
2.
The peritoneum.
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)96a/b : Hernya is a skyn in þe wombe and hatte siphac also and brekeþ somtyme..and for hernia, þe neþir midref, holdiþ vp þe bowels, if it happiþ þat þis hernia is to-broke, a gret del of þe bowels falleþ down in to þe codde of þe genytrace.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. hernia.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. herny.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense 1.(c)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. carnous hernia.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense 1.(c)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. fleshy hernia.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense 1.(c)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. fleshy herny.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense 1.(c)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. hernia aquosa.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense 1.(c)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. hernia carnosa.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense 1.(c)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. hernia humoralis.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense 1.(c)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. hernia intestinalis.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense 1.(c)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. hernia of the guts.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense 1.(c)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. hernia varicosa.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense 1.(c)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. hernia ventosa.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense 1.(c)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. hernia ventralis.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense 1.(c)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. humoral hernia.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense 1.(c)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. ventose hernia.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense 1.(c)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. watery hernia.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense 1.(c)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. windy hernia.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense 1.(c)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. windy herny.