Inguinal Hernia

[Shared By Erza]:
Hernia surgery may sound scary but the experience was actually quite mild.
I was diagnosed with inguinal hernia in the groin area. It was not painful and I never realized it was there until a routine check-up.
Immediately I was put down for surgery. It was a day surgery and done in just a couple [...]

A hernia is the protrusion or penetration of an organ through the wall of a cavity that normally contains it. Hernia is Latin for protrusion.
A hiatal hernia occurs when there is a protrusion upwards from the stomach into the mediastinum through the esophageal opening in the diaphragm.
One of the most common herniae develops in the [...]