listhesis

The story

1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromὀλισθάνω“to slip, to slide”
2. English todaylisthesis

From reanalysis of spondylolisthesis as spondylo- + listhesis. The second element would be more accurately written olisthesis; it is from Ancient Greek ὀλισθάνω (olisthánō, “to slip, to slide”). Compare olistostrome. The word first appears in a 1912 medical terminology reference.

Words from the same roots