Umbilical hernias in many centers are best managed with the use of polypropylene mesh placed in the onlay position or Ventralex-type mesh (Bard Davol) placed intraperitoneally in patients under local anesthesia in a day-surgery setting.

In some instances the inside door to the nave from a porch entrance would be overlooked by a similar structure to a bretache, known as an assommoir. Windows would be bricked up, defended by stout iron bars and grilles […] In other instances a box machicolation or bretache overlooked the door. There are, rarely, remains of grooves for a raised drawbridge or portcullis and archival evidence of a barbican. […] Sixteen bretaches were placed to overlook every opening of the church, be it door, window or defence opening. The roof of both nave and chancel was stone-vaulted with meuretières at the rib crossings providing observation of the ...

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Flowers single or in cymes, regular, usually unisexual, enclosed in a spathe, mostly with petals and sepals clearly differentiated (heterochlamydeous) […]