The word "lumbar" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the lower spine and the region of the back associated with it. For example, "I injured my lumbar while lifting a heavy box."
A trained joiner, she said she had been evicted from her council flat after becoming disabled with lumbar degenerative disc disease and having her benefits sanctioned.
Because endorphin levels can only be measured directly through an invasive lumbar puncture unfeasible, even for notoriously pain-hungry oarsmen the researchers used a readily accepted proxy: they deduced pain tolerance, and hence endorphin levels, by gradually tightening a cuff around each rower's arm.
And as if that were not complicated enough, everybody is watching the declining health of the 83-year-old king, who has been in hospital since 2009 and who had a lumbar puncture this week.
"We were in the valley of death in April of 2009," says John Winzeler, president of Winzeler Gear, whose small plastic gears go into door latches, lumbar supports and countless car parts.
Mammals have no lumbar ribs.
A padded cushion tied around your waist all day could double as a lovely portable lumbar support, no?
The first successful hemicorporectomy (at the level between the lowest lumbar vertebra and the sacrum) was performed 18 months later by J. Bradley Aust and Karel B. Absolon, of Minnesota.
Development of the EEG, analysis of cerebrospinal fluid obtained by lumbar puncture (spinal tap), and development of cerebral angiography allowed neurologists to increase the precision of their diagnoses and develop specific therapies and rehabilitative measures.
The inferior vena cava is formed by the coming together of the two major veins from the legs, the common iliac veins, at the level of the fifth lumbar vertebra, just below the small of the back.
Brucella spondylitis is an arthritis of the spine that generally occurs several weeks after initial infection with brucellae and may involve any part of the spine, although the lumbar region is the most commonly affected site.
The Arabian horse has one lumbar vertebra less than other breeds of horse and is characterized by the high carriage of its head, long neck, and spirited action.
