Anatom3DIntervertebral discs
Disci intervertebrales · Meziobratlové ploténky
Joints & cartilage
Looks like
A tough fibrous ring around a soft gel centre, one between each pair of vertebrae.
What it does
Cushions the spine and lets it bend and twist.
Keeping it well
Move often and change position; the gel dries with age, and a bulge presses on a nerve rather than on the back itself.
Its parts
- Nucleus pulposus C2-C3
- Nucleus pulposus C3-C4
- Nucleus pulposus C4-C5
- Nucleus pulposus C5-C6
- Nucleus pulposus C6-C7
- Nucleus pulposus C7-T1
- Nucleus pulposus L1-L2
- Nucleus pulposus L2-L3
- Nucleus pulposus L3-L4
- Nucleus pulposus L4-L5
- Nucleus pulposus L5-S1
- Nucleus pulposus T1-T2
- Nucleus pulposus T10-T11
- Nucleus pulposus T11-T12
- Nucleus pulposus T12-L1
- Nucleus pulposus T2-T3
- Nucleus pulposus T3-T4
- Nucleus pulposus T4-T5
- Nucleus pulposus T5-T6
- Nucleus pulposus T6-T7
- Nucleus pulposus T7-T8
- Nucleus pulposus T8-T9
- Nucleus pulposus T9-T10
Related conditions
- Axial spondyloarthritis
- Bone metastases and spinal cord compression
- Cauda equina syndrome
- Gout
- Haemophilia & bleeding disorders
- Herniated disc
- Lyme disease
- Marfan syndrome & connective tissue disorders
- Neck pain and cervical spondylosis
- Non-specific low back pain
- Osteoarthritis
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Rheumatic fever & rheumatic heart disease
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sciatica
- Scoliosis
- Spina bifida & neural tube defects
- Spinal cord injury
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Temporomandibular joint disorder