| in more severe cases | 7 | temporal |
| sometimes | 6 | temporal |
| because of -tear | 4 | cause |
| disc → be → herniated | 99 |
| disc → become → herniated | 77 |
| disc → can → herniate | 16 |
| disc → have → herniation | 4 |
| disc → lead to → herniation | 3 |
| disc → be considered → herniated | 3 |
| disc → begin to → herniate | 3 |
| negative | neutral | positive |
| 0.552 | 0.426 | 0.022 |
| Raw frequency | 205 |
| Normalized frequency | 0.913 |
| Modifier score | 0.550 |
| Perplexity | 198.421 |