slipped disc
1slipped disc — slipped disk AmE n [C usually singular] a painful injury caused when one of the connecting parts between the bones in your back moves out of place …
2slipped disc — slipped discs N COUNT If you have a slipped disc, you have a bad back because one of the discs in your spine has moved out of its proper position …
3slipped disc — ► NOUN ▪ a cartilaginous disc between vertebrae in the spine that is displaced or partly protruding, pressing on nearby nerves and causing back pain or sciatica …
4slipped disc — noun a painful rupture of the fibrocartilage of the disc between spinal vertebrae; occurs most often in the lumbar region • Syn: ↑herniated disc, ↑ruptured intervertebral disc • Hypernyms: ↑rupture * * * slipped disc see ↑disc • • • …
5Slipped disc — Rupturing of the tissue that separates the vertebral bones of the spinal column. The center of the disc, which is called the nucleus, is soft, springy and receives the shock of standing, walking, running, etc. The outer ring of the disc, which is …
6slipped disc — UK [ˌslɪpt ˈdɪsk] / US noun [countable] Word forms slipped disc : singular slipped disc plural slipped discs medical a painful medical condition affecting your back, in which one of the parts that connect the bones in your spine has moved out of… …
7Slipped disc (disambiguation) — Slipped disc is most frequently used as an informal and misleading name for the medical condition known as spinal disc herniation (prolapsus disci intervertebralis) .It can also refer to the following: *A song by the Benny Goodman Sextet or the… …
8Slipped Disc Records — Infobox Company company name = Slipped Disc Records company type = music retailer caption = Slipped Disc logo foundation = 1982 [http://www.buymusichere.net/rel/v2 home.php?storenr=249 deptnr=43] location = flagicon|USA Valley Stream, New York,… …
9slipped disc — a colloquial term for a herniated intervertebral disc (see prolapsed intervertebral disc) …
10slipped disc — noun an instance of the pulpy inner material of an intervertebral disc protruding through the fibrous outer coat, pressing on nearby nerves and causing back pain or sciatica …
