herniation
Example Sentences
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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
Although a disk herniation definitely can be a possible cause of pain irradiating in the leg, it is only rarely a cause of local back pain.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 21, 2023
In 1997, with the O’s in a pennant race with the Yankees, Ripken played with a herniation in a back disk for 52 straight games.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2020
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
