Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Located between vertebrae.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Situated between any two successive vertebræ.
Wiktionary
- adj. Between the vertebrae
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Anat.) Between vertebræ.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. pertaining to the space between two vertebrae
Examples
“The cause can be either a sudden protrusion or pimple of a cervical disc, or simply inflammation and swelling of the nerve root in a narrowed exit hole of the spine called the intervertebral foramen", says Dr. Alex Simotas, department of physiatry at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City who specializes in neck pain.”
Dr. Rock Positano: Pain In The Neck? Non-Surgical Relief Is On The Way
“The vertebrae are separated by a soft cartilage cushion called the intervertebral disc.”
“Everyone knows that high heels are bad for the lower back, joints, intervertebral discs and overall posture, but it turns out that even the raised heel on most athletic shoes is less than ideal, as well.”
The Huffington Post: Arthur Rosenfeld: Free Your Feet, Change Your Life
“There are also many fossils of plesio-and pliosaurs, including the famous nearly complete articulated skeleton of a juvenile Liopleurodon ferox from the Oxford Clays from which many life-reconstructions are based but actually when I took a closer look I was under the strong impression that the intervertebral distance is too big and some tail vertebrae seems missing too...”
“The reality that despite outward differences humanity is largely the same was brought home by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, nursing a ruptured/herniated intervertebral disk and therefore unable to attend, who commented humorously by video from South Africa that he could not imagine his friend and fellow Nobelist The Dalai Lama being told in heaven, "you are a wonderful man, but because you are not a Christian ....”
“Most back strains that occur with “moving boxes” are likely to be due to spasm of overstretched or torn back muscles, or possible compression and herniation of an intervertebral disk.”
“Lumbar disc disease is the drying out of the spongy interior matrix of an intervertebral disc in the spine.”
“The term “Cervical Spondylytis” refers to a disease which refers to the degeneration of intervertebral disc and consequent pressure on the cervical spinal cord or the cervical nerve roots.”
“Seated shoulder presses do increase the compressive load on the intervertebral discs," he says.”
The Overhead Press: Bodybuilding's Forgotten Muscle Builder by Chris Colucci
“The ribs are connected to all the intervertebral spaces on the inside, from the neck to the lumbar region, by a small ligament, and before to the sternum, their extremities being spongy and soft; their form is the most arched in man of all animals; for in this part, man is, of all animals, the narrowest in proportion to his bulk.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘intervertebral’.
-
SCIE - Be the first...
... to use these words in spoken English and reap esteem. In the SPOKEN corpus of the COCA (full corpus: 450 million words) none of these occur.
stochastic, disputant, state-led, almshouse, exceptionality, bibliographical, t-test, z-score, personal/social, neoplastic, stroma, ludic and 288 more...
-
Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
-
five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
-
Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for intervertebral.

Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.