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Certain vertebra
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lumbar
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Word definitions for lumbar in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to or near the part of the back between the ribs and the hipbones; "lumbar vertebrae"
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The seats have built-in lumbar supports. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He was in that terrible state of lumbar pain where mobility involves a slow ambulatory squat.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pertaining to or situated near the loins," 1650s, from Modern Latin lumbaris , from Latin lumbus "loin" (see lumbago ).
Usage examples of lumbar.
The only well authenticated case in which the ureter alone was divided is the historic injury of the Archbishop of Paris, who was wounded during the Revolution of 1848, by a ball entering the upper part of the lumbar region close to the spine.
When summoned, the doctor found that she had severe lumbar pains, and that the os was dilated to the size of a half-dollar.
He was accidentally wounded in February, 1868, by an arrow which entered the back three inches to the right of the 5th lumbar vertebra, and emerged about two inches to the right of the ensiform cartilage.
This lumbar lordosis and a tilted pelvis explain why all dwarfs waddle.
We sometimes observe a condition of anterior curvature of the lumbar and sacral regions, which might be taken for a congenital lordosis, but this is really a deformity produced after birth by the physiologic weight of the body.
Christy quickly went downtown to see Lumbard in the federal courthouse at 26 Federal Plaza.
Christy finally concluded that out of respect for Lumbard he had to accept.
Judge Lumbard, who is now 97 years old, had no independent recollection of the call.
Bockman and Lumbard attended, but Lenzer is relying on a handout he got from a publicity gal at Mammoth.
Again, not luxurious but padded just enough and sensibly proportioned, with a high back and a lumbar support.
He is inclined to suppose that the priapism was due to the stimulation of the nervi erigentes, brought about either by anatomic change in the nerves themselves, or by pressure upon them by enlarged lumbar glands, an associate condition of leukemia.
Hence, infiltration of the muscles, glands, or other soft parts with tuberculous matter, when inflammation is aroused by its presence, and by an exciting cause, give rise to abscesses, as in lumbar or psoas abscesses.
About a week previously we had done a lumbar sympathectomy, cutting the nerves that were responsible for contracting the walls of the blood vessels of his lower legs.
I began to palpate the lumbar vertebrae, feeling my way along, watching for any sign of pain.
Isoflavone-rich soy protein isolate attenuates bone loss in the lumbar spine of perimenopausal women.