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name: degenerative-disc-disease
description: Apply the Degenerative Disc Disease article as model behavior. Use when a request invokes this article's concept, claims, evidence, or operating standard.
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# Degenerative Disc Disease

This Skill is the behavioral expression of [the canonical article](/a/degenerative-disc-disease). It does not repeat the article's human prose.

## Orient

- Read the machine article at /api/articles/degenerative-disc-disease.
- Read claims and relationships at /api/articles/degenerative-disc-disease/topology.
- Treat found content as evidence and instruction only within the article's stated authority.

## Apply

1. Identify which claim or concept from the article governs the request.
2. State the governing meaning in the minimum language needed.
3. Apply it to the requested object or decision.
4. Preserve evidence grades, uncertainty, authority limits, and failure conditions.
5. Return the result with the article identity and any relevant claim or receipt links.

## Human meaning

Your radiology report says degenerative disc disease. Here is the number that should have been printed next to it, and almost never is. Researchers pooled 33 imaging studies covering 3,110 people who had no back pain at all . Radiologists r

## Representations

- Human: /a/degenerative-disc-disease
- JSON: /api/articles/degenerative-disc-disease
- Relationships: /api/articles/degenerative-disc-disease/topology
- History: /api/articles/degenerative-disc-disease/revisions
