Glossary
- GOLDSTEIN
- For scoliosis deformity graft incorporating posterior elements, including facet joints and ribs.
- GRAFT
- any free (unattached) tissue or organ for transplantation.
- GRAY MATTER
- The nerve cell bodies to muscle and sensory outflow and input, respectively.
- GRISEL SYNDROME
- Subluxation of the atlantoaxial joint from inflammatory ligamentous laxity due to infection. Can result in neurologic complications.
- HABIT
- An act, behavioral response, practice, or custom established in one's repertoire by frequent repetition of the same act.
- HALIFAX
- Clamp across lamina of C-1 and C-2.
- HARRINGTON ROD
- An instrumentation and fusion using a straight, stiff rod for distraction or compression; associated with a posterior spinal fusion in the thoracic or thoracolumbar spine for scoliosis or trauma.
- HEADACHE
- Pain in various parts of the head, not confined to the area of distribution of any nerve.
- HEAT
- A high temperature, the sensation produced by proximity to fire or an incandescent object, as opposed to cold.
- HEMANGIOMA
- A benign tumor consisting of a mass of blood vessels.
- HEMATOMA
- A blood clot.
- HEMATOMYELIA
- Effusion of blood (hemorrhage) into the substance of the spinal cord.
- HEMATORRHACHIS
- Spinal apoplexy; hemorrhage into vertebral canal.
- HEMIANOPIA
- Loss of vision of one-half of the visual field.
- HEMIATROPHY
- Atrophy of half of an organ or half of the body.
- HEMILAMINECTOMY
- The excision of only one side of the lamina (right or left) relative to other spinous process.
- HEMIPLEGIA
- Paralysis of one side of the body.
- HEMISPHERECTOMY
- Excision of one cerebral hemisphere undertaken for malignant tumors, intractable epilepsy usually associate with infantile hemiplegia due to birth injury and other cerebral conditions.
- HEMORRHAGE
- Bleeding due to the escape of blood from a blood vessel.
- HEREDITARY
- Transmissible from parent to offspring by information encoded in the parental germ cell.
- HEREDITY
- The transmission of characters from parent to offspring by information encoded in the parental germ cells. Genealogy.
- HERNIATED INTERVERTBRAL DISC (HID)
- Extrusion of part of the nucleus pulposus material through a defect in the annulus fibrosus. Otpouching of a disc.
- HERNIATED NUCLEUS PULPOSUS (HNP)
- Extrusion of the central portion of an intervertebral disc through the outer cartilaginous ring. The material can compress the spinal cord or nerves in or exiting the spinal canal.
- HERNIATION
- Formation of a protrusion.
- HETEROTOPIC BONE FORMATION
- The occurrence of bone growth in an abnormal location.
- HIBBS SPINAL FUSION
- A lumbar spinal fusion that includes fusing the spinous process, lamina, and facet for stabilization.
- HODGSON
- Anterior approach to C-1 and C-2 area for drainage of tuberculosis abscess.
- HOOK
- For spinal applications, a metallic medical device used to connect spinal structures to a rod.
- HORMONE
- A chemical substance formed in one gland or part of the body and carried by the blood to another organ which it stimulates to functional activity.
- HUMERUS
- The bone of the arm, articulating with the scapula above and the radius and ulna below.
