herniation
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He missed the start of the season after undergoing microdiscectomy for a lumbar disc herniation.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
Especially in the previous century, spinal imaging focused on findings associated with degenerative spinal changes, including disk degeneration and disk herniation.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 21, 2023
Oe is best known for this 1964 semi-autobiographical novel, a dark comedy about a callow young academic who decides to leave his wife after their baby is born with a brain herniation.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2023
But Michael Collins, the astronaut first chosen as the Command Module Pilot, needed back surgery after suffering a cervical disc herniation.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2018
Diverticula may, and usually do, consist in a pouching by herniation, of the whole thickness of the esophageal wall; or they may be herniations of the mucosa between the muscular layers.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
