Multiple Choice
A patient's annual physical examination reveals a lateral curvature of the thoracic and lumbar segments of his spine;however,this curvature disappears with forward bending.The nurse knows that this abnormality of the spine would be called:
A) structural scoliosis.
B) functional scoliosis.
C) herniated nucleus pulposus.
D) dislocated nucleus pulposus.
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