What is a hernia?

A hernia is a defect in the abdominal wall. The abdominal walls may have a multiple layers, the skin and soft tissues, underneath the soft tissues, there is the core muscle the musculature of the abdomen. And there is an opening or defect in the core muscles of your abdomen where any part of the intra-abdominal contents including the fat, the intestines can migrate out through that opening and you will see a bulge that causes pain but that’s the hernia it’s when your intra-abdominal contents starts migrating outside that abdominal wall and that’s called a hernia.