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intervertebral disc

British

/ ˌɪntəˈvɜːtəbrəl /

noun

any of the cartilaginous discs between individual vertebrae, acting as shock absorbers

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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

There are more experiments to come, testing the effects of other transcription factors that contribute to intervertebral disc development.

From Science Daily • May 16, 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

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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