The meaning of the medical term muscular dystrophy is: a group of hereditary diseases characterized by degeneration of muscle and weakness The medical term that describes a rupture of intervertebral disk cartilage that allows the contents to protrude through it, which, in turn, puts pressure on the spinal nerve roots is:
ungulate - any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically hoofed mammal eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal - mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
No one will deny that the Hipparion is intermediate between the existing horse and certain other ungulate forms. On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin They are described as combining the head and claws of a bear with the teeth of a rodent and the general characters of an ungulate. The Story of Evolution Joseph McCabe Quadrupeds he was the first to divide into ungulate and unguiculate, hoofed and clawed, having himself invented the Latin words.