A hernia of the abdominal wall or protrusion of abdominal contents, from Greek roots for belly and hernia.
From Greek 'koilia' (belly) + 'kele' (hernia/rupture). The '-cele' suffix refers to any herniation and appears in terms like 'hydrocele' and 'varicocele'.
Greek physicians recognized hernias thousands of years ago and called them 'kele'—the term stuck so well that modern doctors still use it to describe every type of rupture.
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