intervertebral disc
Britishnoun
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The event is partly aimed at raising awareness and funds to combat intervertebral disc disease, which is common in sausage dogs due to their long bodies.
From BBC • Oct. 6, 2024
Michael Lazaris of Vets on the Common, in London, says many as one in five Dachshunds suffer from intervertebral disc disease because of their elongated spines.
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2024
Low back pain is a major cause of disability, often associated with intervertebral disc degeneration.
From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2024
For example, a large-scale review showed that across 3,110 asymptomatic people, intervertebral disc degeneration was present in 27 percent of 20-year-olds ranging to 96 percent of 80-year-olds.
From Scientific American • Jul. 15, 2021
Total dislocation, in which the articular processes on both sides are displaced and the contiguous intervertebral disc separated, is rare, and is met with chiefly in the lower cervical region.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
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