Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun intervertebral_disc

1 sense of intervertebral disc

Sense 1
intervertebral disc, intervertebral disk -- (a fibrocartilaginous disc serving as a cushion between all of the vertebrae of the spinal column (except between the first two))
       => disk, disc, saucer -- (something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate; "the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky")