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slipped disk

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slipped disk [′slipt ′disk]
(medicine)
herniated disk


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To fix the slipped disk, a surgeon must cut through skin, slide past muscle, drill through bone and then push aside the outer wrapping of the spinal cord to remove the peanut-butter-like packing material that squeezed out of place.
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