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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Protrusion of a part of an intervertebral disk through the fibrocartilage, occurring usually in the lower lumbar region and often causing back pain or sciatica.
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- n. pathology A vertebral disk that protrudes into the spinal canal, exerting pressure on spinal nerves and causing backache or sciatica.
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“Imagine having to have nine surgeries, including seven shoulder operations (complete tears of rotator cuffs, labrum tears), lower-back surgery for a slipped disk, fracture of zygomatic bone (under eye), a broken nose, three broken fingers, radial-nerve damage to the right forearm, a broken right toe, and a slipped disk in the neck.”
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