slipped disc

English

Alternative forms

• slipped disk

Noun

slipped disc (plural slipped discs)

1. (pathology) A vertebral disc that protrudes into the spinal canal, exerting pressure on spinal nerves and causing backache or sciatica.

Usage notes

• This term is not medically accurate as the spinal discs are fixed in position between the vertebrae and cannot actually slip.

Synonyms

• spinal disc herniation

Translations

protruding vertebral disc

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腰椎間盤突出／腰椎间盘突出 (zh) (yāozhuījiānpán tūchū)

• Danish: diskusprolaps
• Dutch: rughernia
• Faroese: disklop
• Finnish: välilevypullistuma
• French: déplacement de vertèbre
• German: Bandscheibenvorfall (de)
• Hungarian: porckorongsérv (hu)
• Icelandic: brjósklos (is) n
• Irish: teasc sciorrtha
• Italian: ernia del disco
• Japanese: 椎間板ヘルニア (ja) (tsuikanban herunia)
• Latin: prolapsus disci invertebralis
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skiveprolaps

  Nynorsk: skiveprolaps

• Portuguese: disco deslocado
• Swedish: diskbråck (sv) n