Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Located between vertebrae.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated between any two successive vertebræ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Between vertebræ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Between the
vertebrae
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective pertaining to the space between two vertebrae
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Examples
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"The cause can be either a sudden protrusion or pimple of a cervical disc, or simply inflammation and swelling of the nerve root in a narrowed exit hole of the spine called the intervertebral foramen", says Dr. Alex Simotas, department of physiatry at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City who specializes in neck pain.
Dr. Rock Positano: Pain In The Neck? Non-Surgical Relief Is On The Way 2008
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The vertebrae are separated by a soft cartilage cushion called the intervertebral disc.
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Everyone knows that high heels are bad for the lower back, joints, intervertebral discs and overall posture, but it turns out that even the raised heel on most athletic shoes is less than ideal, as well.
Arthur Rosenfeld: Free Your Feet, Change Your Life Arthur Rosenfeld 2011
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Everyone knows that high heels are bad for the lower back, joints, intervertebral discs and overall posture, but it turns out that even the raised heel on most athletic shoes is less than ideal, as well.
Arthur Rosenfeld: Free Your Feet, Change Your Life Arthur Rosenfeld 2011
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Everyone knows that high heels are bad for the lower back, joints, intervertebral discs and overall posture, but it turns out that even the raised heel on most athletic shoes is less than ideal, as well.
Arthur Rosenfeld: Free Your Feet, Change Your Life Arthur Rosenfeld 2011
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Everyone knows that high heels are bad for the lower back, joints, intervertebral discs and overall posture, but it turns out that even the raised heel on most athletic shoes is less than ideal, as well.
Arthur Rosenfeld: Free Your Feet, Change Your Life Arthur Rosenfeld 2011
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There are also many fossils of plesio-and pliosaurs, including the famous nearly complete articulated skeleton of a juvenile Liopleurodon ferox from the Oxford Clays from which many life-reconstructions are based but actually when I took a closer look I was under the strong impression that the intervertebral distance is too big and some tail vertebrae seems missing too...
Color Underwater James Gurney 2010
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The reality that despite outward differences humanity is largely the same was brought home by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, nursing a ruptured/herniated intervertebral disk and therefore unable to attend, who commented humorously by video from South Africa that he could not imagine his friend and fellow Nobelist The Dalai Lama being told in heaven, "you are a wonderful man, but because you are not a Christian ...."
Sunil Chacko: Vancouver, Multicultural Gateway To The World 2009
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Most back strains that occur with “moving boxes” are likely to be due to spasm of overstretched or torn back muscles, or possible compression and herniation of an intervertebral disk.
The Crooked Man 2009
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Lumbar disc disease is the drying out of the spongy interior matrix of an intervertebral disc in the spine.
How do you find a diet and nutrition facts dabase online? 2009
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