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incarceration

Confinment or entrapment (imprisonment). In the case of groin hernia, entrapment of the bowel at the: 1) external or internal inguinal ring (inguinal hernia) 2) femoral ring (femoral hernia)

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correctional facility

References

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