[a. Gr. βουβωνοκήλη, f. βουβῶν the groin + κήλη a rupture; cf. F. bubonocèle.] Inguinal rupture or hernia.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 91. Whence it commeth to passe, that woemen are often troubled with the Boubonocele.
1736. Phil. Trans., XXXIX. 329. The Cure of the Hernia … could be obtained by no other Operation than that for the Bubonocele.
1876. Gross, Dis. Bladder, 343. A hernia of this description is sometimes complicated with a bubonocele, or hernia of the groin.
