umbilical hernia

1. 1.

   protrusion of the intestine and omentum through a hernia in the abdominal wall near the navel; usually self correcting after birth

   Synonymsomphalocele

   Broaderhernia

Questions about umbilical hernia

What does umbilical hernia mean?

umbilical hernia means "protrusion of the intestine and omentum through a hernia in the abdominal wall near the navel; usually self correcting after birth".

What is another word for umbilical hernia?

Close synonyms include omphalocele. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is umbilical hernia a common word?

umbilical hernia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.