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
- Fibrositis
- Flexion
- Foot Drop
- Foramen
- Foraminal Stenosis
- Fusion
- Graft Displacement
- Halo
- Harrington Rod
- Herniated Disc
- Hydroxyapatite
- Hyperkyphosis
- Hyperlordosis
- Hypertrophic Facet Disease
- Idiopathic Scoliosis
- Iliac Bone
- Inflammation
- Informed Consent
- Institutional Review Board
- Internal Disc Disruption
- Internal Fixation
- Intervertebral Disc
- Intradural-Extramedullary Tumor
- Investigational Device Exemption
- Isthmic Spondylolisthesis
- Joint
- Juvenile Scoliosis
- Kyphoplasty
- Kyphosis
- Lamina
- Laminectomy
- Laminoplasty
- Laminotomy
- Lateral Stenosis
- Leg Pain
- Levator Scapulae Muscle
