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Comment by spwa4

3 days ago

That's called a "fistel" and it's a very serious condition, requires immediate surgery, and recognizable by the smell from roughly a kilometer away.

No, a fistula is different than a hernia.

If you think of your abdomen as a bag full of tubes, a fistula is a hole in the tube that connects to something else. A hernia is a hole in the bag, that the tube can poke through.