intervertebral
IPA: ɪntɝvˈɝtʌbrʌɫ
adjective
- Between the vertebrae
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Examples of "intervertebral" in Sentences
- The vertebrae are separated by a soft cartilage cushion called the intervertebral disc.
- Lumbar disc disease is the drying out of the spongy interior matrix of an intervertebral disc in the spine.
- 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.
- 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.
- "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.
- 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...
- 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 ...."
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