cervical disc syndrome

6.0

A neck condition that presses nerves and causes pain, weakness, and tingling

noun
/ˈsɜrvɪkəl dɪsk ˈsɪnˌdroʊm/

Specialized

: síndrome del disco cervical

The patient was diagnosed with cervical disc syndrome after complaining of persistent neck pain and tingling in his arms.

Examples

Symptoms of cervical disc syndrome can include both muscular weakness and numbness in the hands.
Physical therapy is often recommended as an initial treatment for cervical disc syndrome.
She was diagnosed with cervical disc syndrome last week.
The doctor explained that cervical disc syndrome can cause severe pain.
Symptoms of cervical disc syndrome can include both muscular weakness and numbness in the hands.
Physical therapy is often recommended as an initial treatment for cervical disc syndrome.
The patient was diagnosed with cervical disc syndrome after complaining of persistent neck pain and tingling in his arms.

Synonyms

cervical root syndrome

vscervical disc syndrome

Specialized

7.4

Pain, weakness, and numbness in the neck and arm from a pinched nerve

has identical medical meaning but uses a different form of the name

Surface Forms

cervical disc syndrome singular

cervical disc syndromes plural

Morphology

cervical + disk + syndrome

The term is fully compositional: 'cervical' = relating to the neck, 'disc' = the intervertebral disc, and 'syndrome' = a set of symptoms. A learner who knows those constituents can readily infer this refers to a set of symptoms caused by problems with neck discs (e.g., nerve compression); it is technical but follows standard noun-composition patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent.

Etymology

Cervical disc syndrome comes from the words cervical (the neck) and disc (the soft cushion between the neck bones). When one of these cushions presses on the nerves in the neck, it causes pain, weakness, or strange feelings in the arms, so the name now means a 'group of symptoms' from this pressure.