(medicine) An inguinal hernia, especially of the incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo.

plural of bottle-feeder

The process of transferring heat from an object in order to cool it. / The process of preserving something by cooling. / (medicine) The cooling of the body for therapeutic purposes.

A wicked demon in Christian and Jewish apocrypha.