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Discectomy

 
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A discectomy is a surgical procedure in which the central portion of an intervertebral disc, the nucleus pulposus, which is causing pain by stressing the spinal cord or radiating nerves, is removed. Advances in options have produced effective alternatives to traditional discectomy procedures, i.e. microdiscectomy. A laminectomy is often involved to permit access to the intervertebral disc in a traditional discectomy.

The Intervertebral disc is the structure between the vertebrae (bones of the spine), which act as both a spacer and a shock absorber. The disc is composed of two parts: a soft gel-like middle (nucleus pulposus) surrounded by a tougher fibrous wall (annulus fibrosus).

Lumbar nerve root pain (often called Sciatica) generally goes below the knee and is felt in the area of the leg that the particular spinal nerve supplies. Sciatica is usually caused by an intervertebral disc protruding because it's tough fibrous wall weakens and is therefore no longer able to contain the gel-like substance in the centre. This material may bulge or push out through a tear in the wall (Herniation) causing pain when it touches a nerve.


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Dansk (Danish)
n. - skive, diskette, diskus, grammofonplade, laserdisk, parkeringsskive

idioms:

  • disc drive    diskettedrev
  • disc jockey    diskjockey
  • disk cache    disk-cache
  • disk pack    disk-pakke

Nederlands (Dutch)
schijf, disk, plaat, cd

Français (French)
n. - disque, (Anat) disque (intervertébral), (Mil) plaque d'idendité

idioms:

  • disc drive    lecteur de disques
  • disc jockey    disc jockey
  • disk cache    cache disques
  • disk pack    unité de disques

Deutsch (German)
n. - Scheibe, Schallplatte, Bandscheibe

idioms:

  • disc drive    (EDV) Diskettenlaufwerk
  • disc jockey    Diskjockey (jmnd. der Schallplatten präsentiert)
  • disk cache    Diskcache
  • disk pack    Diskettenpaket

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - δίσκος

idioms:

  • disc drive    μονάδα δίσκου
  • disc jockey    ντισκ τζόκεϊ, παρουσιαστής δίσκων
  • disk cache    (Η/Υ) λανθάνουσα μνήμη δίσκου (για προσωρινή αποθήκευση δεδομένων)
  • disk pack    (Η/Υ) διάταξη δίσκων

Italiano (Italian)
disco

idioms:

  • disc drive    disc drive
  • disc jockey    disc jockey

Português (Portuguese)
n. - disco (m)

idioms:

  • compact disc    compact disc
  • disc drive    leitor (m) de discos (Comp.)
  • disc jockey    locutor (m)

Русский (Russian)
диск

idioms:

  • compact disc    компакт-диск
  • disc drive    дисковод
  • disc jockey    диск-жокей

Español (Spanish)
n. - disco

idioms:

  • disc drive    unidad de disco
  • disc jockey    disc jockey, pinchadiscos, locutor que presenta discos en la radio
  • disk cache    caché de disco
  • disk pack    cilindro con varios discos magnéticos

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - skiva, lamell

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
圆盘, 唱片

idioms:

  • disc drive    磁盘驱动器
  • disc jockey    唱片音乐节目主持人
  • disk cache    磁盘高速缓存
  • disk pack    磁盘组

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 圓盤, 唱片

idioms:

  • disc drive    磁碟機
  • disc jockey    唱片音樂節目主持人
  • disk cache    磁盤高速緩存
  • disk pack    磁碟組

한국어 (Korean)
n. - (컴퓨터의) 디스크

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - レコード, 平円形の表面, ディスコ

idioms:

  • disc drive    ディスクドライブ
  • disc jockey    ディスクジョッキー

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) نفس معنى كلمه Disk , قرص, أسطوانه, سطح مسطح دائري, طبقه غضروفيه بين فقرات العمود الفقري‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮דיסק, דיסקה, דיסקוס, תקליט, עיגול, שכבת סחוס בין חוליות עמוד-השדרה, צרור צפוף של פרחים קטנים במרכז פרח מורכב‬


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