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herniate
(redirected from herniations)

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her·ni·ate  (hûrn-t)
intr.v. her·ni·at·ed, her·ni·at·ing, her·ni·ates
To protrude through an abnormal bodily opening.

herni·ation n.


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It is unlikely that resolution of the patient's disk extrusion commenced until her symptoms began to improve during her FR program, because studies (11,14,66) have shown that morphologic changes in disk herniations seen on imaging typically lag behind improvements in patients' symptoms.
When encountered, brain herniations were bipolar-coagulated, and pinhole dural defects were closed with 6-0 Neurilon (figure 4).
In the two short weeks we have been scanning, I have already diagnosed disc herniations that were only apparent with flexion or extension and not apparent on neutral views.
 
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