Crossword clues for lumbago
lumbago
- Lower back pain
- Backache affecting the lumbar region or lower back
- Can be caused by muscle strain or arthritis or vascular insufficiency or a ruptured intervertebral disc
- Back pain
- Suggestion of doubt after learner driver gets to talk about old pain in back
- Stack Beano at first with earlier back issue
- Smoker getting sack over complaint
- Prisoner to engage posh doctor over complaint
- Posh doctor engaged by prisoner over back pain
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lumbago \Lum*ba"go\, n. [L., fr. lumbus loin. See Lumbar.] (Med.) A rheumatic pain in the loins and the small of the back.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, from Late Latin lumbago "weakness of loins and lower back," from Latin lumbus "loin" (usually plural), from PIE *lendh- "loin" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic ledvije (plural) "loins; soul," Russian ljadveja "loin;" Old English lendenu "loins," German Lende "loin," Lenden "loins").
Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) backache of the lumbar region or lower back, which can be caused by muscle strain or a slipped disk.
WordNet
n. backache affecting the lumbar region or lower back; can be caused by muscle strain or arthritis or vascular insufficiency or a ruptured intervertebral disc [syn: lumbar pain]
Usage examples of "lumbago".
My painful lumbago has alone prevented me from answering your short note yesterday, to express to you my regrets, and the love which has been enhanced in me by your generosity, alas!
My painful lumbago has alone prevented me from answering your short note yesterday, to express to you my regrets, and the love which has been enhanced in me by your generosity, alas!
The next day my fever and delirium increased, and two days after, the fever having abated, I found myself almost crippled and suffering fearfully with lumbago.
Anne Kearns has the lumbago for which she rubs on Lourdes water, given her by a lady who got a bottleful from a passionist father.
The pool instantly turned brown-black and unpleasantly pungent, but the French-speaking attendant made Beck understand that the formic acid in the multitude of little ant corpses, plus the turpentine they had absorbed from living in a pine forest, was far more efficacious than reliance on mere miracles for easing rheumatism, lumbago, muscle strain and backache.
Brandy spreads pot gloss across her top lip and then her bottom lip, blots her lips on a tissue, and drops the big lumbago kiss into the snail shell toilet.
In Miller's pocket was an identity card, work permit, ration card, tobacco card, frontier zone permit, and a medical certificate signed by a Doctor Lebayon of Pau explaining that chronic lumbago had prevented him from being deported to Germany as a forced labourer.