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The cervical disc should not be regarded as a smaller version of the lumbar disc. It has less soft nuclear material, and the nucleus only really exists in childhood and young adulthood. By 40 years of age, there is no gelatinous nucleus anymore; rather the central region of the disc is composed of fibrocartilage. ................
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