Kümmell’s disease /kim″əlz/ [Hermann Kümmell, German surgeon, 1852–1937; L, dis + Fr, aise, ease] , a set of symptoms that develops after a compression fracture of the vertebrae with spinal injury. The symptoms include spinal pain, intercostal neuralgia, kyphosis, and weakness in the legs. Also called Kümmell’s spondylitis, posttraumatic spondylitis, traumatic spondylopathy.
