slipped disc

1. 1.

   a painful rupture of the fibrocartilage of the disc between spinal vertebrae; occurs most often in the lumbar region

   Synonymsherniated discruptured intervertebral disc

   Broaderrupture

Questions about slipped disc

What does slipped disc mean?

slipped disc means "a painful rupture of the fibrocartilage of the disc between spinal vertebrae; occurs most often in the lumbar region".

What is another word for slipped disc?

Close synonyms include herniated disc, ruptured intervertebral disc. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is slipped disc a common word?

slipped disc is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.