lumbar
Related to the lower back or loin, specifically the five vertebrae between the rib cage and the pelvis.
Related words
- cervicolumbar
- cervicothoracolumbar
- dorsolumbar
- lumbarization
- midlumbar
- nonlumbar
- paralumbar
- postlumbar
- prelumbar
- sacrolumbar
- sublumbar
- thoracolumbar
Word history
From Latin "lumbāris".
Where this comes from
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