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slipped disk

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slipped disk [′slipt ′disk]
(medicine)


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For example, a slipped disk is an acute condition that can be expensive to correct at the time of diagnosis.
OUTGOING Doctor Who David Tennant, 37, returned to rehearsals with the RSC yesterday after a month off playing Hamlet at London's Novello theatre because of a slipped disk.
A slipped disc or disk, also called Bulging disk, Compressed disk, herniated intervertebral disk, and ruptured disk The term slipped disk is most often used by medical professionals, and refers to when the jelly-like nuclear tissue found between the vertebrae called "disks", is forced from the center of the adjoining bones, causing pain A slipped disc or disk, also called: Bulging disk, Compressed disk, herniated intervertebral disk, and ruptured disk.
 
 
 
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