Spondylosis vs Spondylolysis vs Spondylolisthesis: What’s the Difference?

Spondylosis vs Spondylolysis vs Spondylolisthesis - PMIR

Spondylosis vs spondylolysis vs spondylolisthesis. What do all these conditions have in common? The answer is the spine. Spondyl or spondyle is another word for vertebra and traces its origin to the Latin and Greek spondylus/spondylos, which gave us the medical prefix ­­spondylo-, as in spondylosis and spondylolisthesis. Similarly, the back half of each word…

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