Glossary - Understandable Definitions of Medical Terms
The Spine-health Medical Glossary provides accurate, easy-to-understand definitions for common (and not-so-common) terms related to chronic pain, spine surgery, back pain, and more. Click on a letter to get started.
Glossary Term
- Computed Tomography (CT Scan)
- Congenital Disorder
- Conservative Treatment
- Cordotomy
- Corpectomy
- Cortical Bone
- Costovertebral Junction
- COX-2 Inhibitor
- Craniosacral Therapy
- Decompression Surgery
- Decompression Therapy
- Degeneration
- Degenerative Arthritis
- Degenerative Disc Disease
- Degenerative Scoliosis
- Demineralized Bone
- Depression
- Dermatome
- Diagnostic Test or Diagnostic Study
- Disc
- Discectomy
- Discogenic Pain
- Discogram
- Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (DEXA) Scan
- Electrodiagnostic Study (EMG/NCS)
- Electromyography (EMG)
- Endorphins
- Endoscope
- Epidural Space
- Epidural Steroid Injection
- Erector Spinae
- Facet Block
- Facet Joints
- Failed Back Surgery Syndrome
- Fibromyalgia
- Fibrosis
