spinal fusion

1. 1.

   correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae; usually done surgically but sometimes done by traction or immobilization

   Synonymsfusion

   Broadercorrection

Questions about spinal fusion

What does spinal fusion mean?

spinal fusion means "correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae; usually done surgically but sometimes done by traction or immobilization".

What is another word for spinal fusion?

Close synonyms include fusion. 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 spinal fusion a common word?

spinal fusion 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.