Wiktionary
alt. (context pathology English) A vertebral disk that protrudes into the spinal canal, exerting pressure on spinal nerves and causing backache or sciatica. n. (context pathology English) A vertebral disk that protrudes into the spinal canal, exerting pressure on spinal nerves and causing backache or sciatica.
Usage examples of "slipped disk".
There were the usual complaints and conditions to be found in any random sampling of the population: a few diabetics, a chronic slipped disk, a case of Addison's disease.
This doesn't sound graceful but it is, and it proved that there was not a case of arthritis nor a slipped disk anywhere on the Doral spread.
I was still recup erating after a slipped disk, so that I walked with a sort of careful crouch and winced when I hefted the thick manuscript.
I was still recuperating after a slipped disk, so that I walked with a sort of careful crouch and winced when I hefted the thick manuscript.
A couple of kids made it a whole lot easier to collect welfare, after all, and once Jeanine had dumped or been dumped by her latest boyfriend, a biker with a slipped disk that entitled him to state compensation, she'd suddenly developed all manner of maternal instincts.
We got two steers with permanently wrenched necks and one poor old bronc with a slipped disk.