English Explanatory Dictionary

listhesis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A forward (anterior) displacement (slippage) of a vertebra over a lower segment.
  2. Any such displacement, anterior or otherwise.

Word forms

listhesis listheses

Etymology

From reanalysis of spondylolisthesis as spondylo- + listhesis. The second element would be more accurately written olisthesis; it is from Ancient Greek ὀλισθάνω (olisthánō, “to slip, to slide”). Compare olistostrome. The word first appears in a 1912 medical terminology reference.

Derived words

retrolisthesis spondylolisthesis
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