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It means either bone from the vertebra(s) is growing into the spinal canal. This would be caused by spondylosis, or in English, Arthritis of the spine... The spinal canal runs down a passage made by the vertebrae and surrounding bony "arches". These arches have a part that 'sticks out' called the spinous process, and these are the "bumps" that you can feel when you run your fingers down someone's back. Here's a web address you can copy & paste into your browser to see what I'm talking about: http://images.Google.com/images?hl=en&q=spinal+canal,+picture&um=1&ie=UTF-8 Hope this helps!

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