Incarceration

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Introduction

• Confinment or entrapment (inprisonment).

• In the case of groin hernia, entrapment of the bowel at the:

• external or internal inguinal ring ( inguinal hernia)
• femoral ring ( femoral hernia)

Additional Terms

• correctional facility

References

Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.

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