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Definition: Herniated Disc |
Herniated DiscNoun1. A painful rupture of the fibrocartilage of the disc between spinal vertebrae; occurs most often in the lumbar region. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Medicine | Protrusion of a degenerated or fragmented intervertebral disc into the intervertebral foramen compressing the nerve root. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Herniated DiscSynonyms: ruptured intervertebral disc (n), slipped disc (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Herniated Disc |
| Specialty definitions using "herniated disc": lifting trauma, lumbar herniated disc. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | One common cause of sciatica is a herniated disc (see Spine Basics in the Appendix). (references) | |
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Expression using "herniated disc": lumbar herniated disc. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "herniated disc"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | diskusprolaps (prolapse of the intervertebral disk, protrusion of intervertebral disk, slipped disc). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | discushernia (slipped disc). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | välilevytyrä, nikamavälilevyn esiinluiskahdus, diskusprolapsi (lumbar herniated disc). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | hernie discale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Bandscheibenvorfall (prolapse of the intervertebral disk, slipped disc), Bandscheibenprolaps (prolapse of the intervertebral disk), Bandscheibenhernie (prolapse of the intervertebral disk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κήλη του μεσοσπονδύλιου δίσκου. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ernia del disco (slipped disc). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erniatedhay iscday hérnia discal (prolapse of the intervertebral disk, slipped disc). (various references) exostosis (exostosis). (various references) diskbråck. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-e-h-i-i-n-r-s-t" | |
-3 letters: carditides, christened, dishearten, disherited, distrained, endarchies, hiddenites, indiscreet, iridescent, rachitides, reindicted. | |
-4 letters: acridines, actinides, adherends, adherents, andesitic, antherids, ardencies, candidest, cashiered, centiares, chantries, charities, chastened, chastener, cheddites, cisternae, creatines, darnedest, decadents, decanters, dedicates, dehiscent, dendrites, dendritic, descanted, destained, detachers, detainers, detrained, diaeretic, diarchies, dicentras, dietaries, discanted, discerned, discredit, distained, distanced, edacities, ethicians, herniated, herniates, hesitance, hiddenite, increased, indicated, indicates, indictees, indicters, inearthed, inherited, iterances, neatherds, nectaries, raticides, readdicts, reincited, reincites, reindicts, rescinded, resinated, riddances, snatchier, stenchier, stridence, tachinids, tarnished, tracheids, trichinae, trichinas. | |
-5 letters: acridest, acridine, actinide, adenitis, adherend, adherent, aetheric, andesite, antherid, archines, arenites, arsenide, arsenite, ascended, ascender, asthenic, candider, canister, canities, cantered, carditis, centares, centiare, ceratins, chanters, chanties, chariest, cheaters, cheddars, cheddite, chedites, chestier, christen, christie, cindered, cineaste, cisterna, citherns, cithrens, citrines, creatine, creatins, credenda, credited, crenated, crinites, ctenidia, daintier, dainties, dandiest, darndest, decadent, decanted, decanter, deciares, deciders, dedicate, dehisced, deicides, dendrite, descried, desertic, destined, detached, detacher, detaches, detained, detainer, detrains, dicentra, diehards, dieretic, diethers, directed, discreet, discrete, disherit, disinter, disrated, distance, distrain, ditchers, dithered, drenched, drenches, echidnae, echidnas, echinate, encashed, enchased, enchaser, enriched, enriches, enticers, ethician, hairiest, hairnets, handiest, hardened, hardiest, hastened, hastener, headiest, headrest, heartens, hearties, hectares, heretics, herniate, hetaeric, hieratic, hindered, ichnites, inarched, inarches, inciters, increase, increate, indicate, indicted, indictee, indicter, indirect, inditers, inearths, inedited, inertiae, inertias, inherits, inserted, iterance, nearside, neatherd, nerdiest, niceties, nitchies, niteries, nitrided, nitrides, rachides, rachitis, rainiest, randiest, raticide, readdict, readiest, reascend, reascent, recanted, recheats, redacted, redheads, reenacts, reincite, reindict, reshined, resident, resinate, retained, richened, riddance, sacheted, sarcenet, scantier, sciaenid, searched, secretin, seriated, siderite, sintered, sithence, snatched, snatcher, snitched, snitcher, stanched, stancher, starched, steadied, steadier, stearine, strained, stranded, stridden, tachinid, tacrines, teachers, theriacs, threaded, tracheid, trainees, tranches, trenched, trenches, trendies, triacids, triadics, trichina. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 72 6E 69 61 74 65 64      44 69 73 63 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01110010 01101110 01101001 01100001 01110100 01100101 01100100 00100000 01000100 01101001 01110011 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e r n i a t e d   D i s c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0072 006E 0069 0061 0074 0065 0064      0044 0069 0073 0063 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)427184807567867170238758569 |
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