Although a violent injury can damage a disk, problems with disks are often brought on by the normal aging process or by everyday activities, such as lifting heavy objects the wrong way, stretching too hard during a tennis volley, or slipping and falling on an icy sidewalk.
HOPLOPHOBE. A person who is afflicted with an irrational fear of firearms. Being averse to firearms since the shooting incident, they lobbied for more bans of all firearms citing the firearm's evil characteristics as reasons for the control measures.
That part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying in the back of the head. Classified under: Nouns denoting body parts. Hypernyms (occipital lobe is a kind of...): lobe ((anatomy) a somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part).Meronyms (parts of occipital lobe):ccipital gyrus (any of the convolutions of the outer surface of the occipital lobe of the cerebrum). Holonyms (occipital lobe is a part of...): cerebral cortex; cerebral mantle; cortex; pallium (the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum).