lumbar

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URINARY TRACT INFECTION ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS DIAGNOSIS  Symptoms: fever shaking chills aching pain - lumbar areas  P.E.: costovertebral angle tenderness  Lab: UA - leukocytes in clumps Urine culture - E. coli 77\% Klebsiella pneumoniae 11\% 54

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  1. adjective Of, near, or situated in the part of the back and sides between the lowest ribs and the pelvis.
  2. noun A lumbar artery, nerve, vertebra, or part.

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  • Not a lumbar-popper in Ceres's .025 Earth-standard gravity, but cumbersome. —  AnalogSFF,July-August2007
  • He used to drive school buses until his back went south--lower lumbar was a killer, yessiree. —  FSF,June2006
  • But a lumbar-motion monitor designed at Ohio State University's biodynamics laboratory could reduce the number of such cases by enabling employers to analyze whether employees' working conditions could put them at risk of lower-back problems. —  Omni: October 1994
  • Interlace your thumbs and stretch your hands up above your head while keeping your arms against your ears - and stretch upwards from the lumbar area of your lower back. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • WHAT IT'S LIKE: A cushion with inflatable pocket to place in the small of your back, to improve posture in chairs that have no lumbar (lower back) support. —  Home | Mail Online
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  1. New Latin lumbāris, from Latin lumbus, loin.

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  1. = French lombaire = Spanish lumbar = Portuguese lombar = Italian lombare, from Late Latin *lumbaris (neuter lumbare, used as a noun, an apron), from Latin lumbus, loin: see loin.
 

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