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Glossary entry

Italiano term or phrase:

unità disco-somatica

Inglese translation:

spinal/vertebral segment

Added to glossary by SJLD
Oct 5, 2011 13:33
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Italiano term

unità disco-somatica

Da Italiano a Inglese Medico/Sanitario Medicina (generale) radiologia
Modificazioni involutive dell'unità disco-somatica L4-L5
Proposed translations (Inglese)
4 +2 disc-body unit
Change log

Oct 16, 2011 16:30: SJLD changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/95492">F Filippi's</a> old entry - "unità disco-somatica"" to ""disc-body unit""

Proposed translations

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disc-body unit

http://books.google.com/books?id=y5f_UYKL28UC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA...

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Note added at 1 hr (2011-10-05 15:23:34 GMT)
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In fact if it's L4-5 it's the body-disk-body unit.

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Note added at 1 hr (2011-10-05 15:26:12 GMT)
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Common vertebral joint problems - Google Books Result
books.google.com/books?isbn=044303365X...Gregory P. Grieve - 1988 - Medical - 787 pages
... that under compressive load, thq most vulnerable elements in a normal disc/body unit are the cancellous bone and the end- plate adjacent to the nucleus. ...

Functional anatomy of the spine - Google Books Result
books.google.com/books?isbn=0750627174...Alison Middleditch, Jean Oliver - 2005 - Medical - 359 pages
Shirazi-Adl SA, Shrivastava SC, Ahmed AM (1984) Stress analysis of the lumbar disc-body unit in compression: a three dimensional nonlinear finite element

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Note added at 1 hr (2011-10-05 15:27:50 GMT)
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Even better would be "spinal segment" or "vertebral segment" - so here L4-5 spinal segment.

Anatomy of the Spine - About Back Pain
www.allaboutbackpain.com/html/spine.../spine_general_anatom...
Jump to Spinal Segments‎: A spinal segment is made up of two vertebrae attached together by ligaments, with a soft disc separating them. The facet joints ..
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