MEROCELE
\mˈɛɹə͡ʊsə͡l], \mˈɛɹəʊsəl], \m_ˈɛ_ɹ_əʊ_s_əl]\
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By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
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In this hernia, the viscera issue from the abdomen through the crural canal; or through an opening immediately on the outer side of Gimbernat's ligament, which gives passage to lymphatic vessels. This affection is more frequent in the female than the male, and especially in those who have had children. The tumour, formed by merocele, is generally small, round, and more or less difficult of reduction. In other respects, it possesses all the characters of hernia. The neck of the sac has, close on the outside, the epigastric artery; above, the spermatic cord and spermatic artery in the male- the round ligament in the female; on the inside, Gimbernat's ligament; and below, the pubes. When obturator artery arises fro the epigastric, it generally passes on the outside of and below the orifice of the sa; sometimes, however, it takes a turn above, and then to the inside of the opening. J. Cloquet asserts, that of 134 cases, in one only did he find the epigastric artery on the inside of the orifice of the sac.
By Robley Dunglison