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▪ I. lumbar, a. and n.1 Anat.|ˈlʌmbə(r)|
[ad. mod.L. lumbār-is, f. L. lumbus loin.]
A. adj.
a. Of, belonging to, or situated in the loin.
1656Blount Glossogr. s.v. Vein, Lumbar vein, the vein of the loins, etc. 1741Monro Anat. Nerves (ed. 3) 67 The five lumbar Nerves on each Side communicate with the Intercostal. 1756Douglas tr. Winslow's Struct. Hum. Body (ed. 4) II. 24 The Lumbar Arteries go out posteriorly from the inferior descending Aorta. 1800Med. Jrnl. III. 232 Invest the whole of the abdominal and lumbar regions with a large..plaster. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life 3 The diaphragm and the lumbar muscles. 1882Quain's Dict. Med. 854/2 The skin of the lumbar region is remarkable for its..thickness.
b. Of, pertaining to, or performed on or within the spinal cord in the lumbar region.
1895Brit. Med. Jrnl. Suppl. 27 Apr. 65/2 Fürbringer..recalls how Quincke, in 1891, at Wiesbaden, made known his method of lumbar puncture in cases of meningitis of various kinds. 1947Physiol. Rev. XXVII. 253 The bitch exhibits normal estrous and mating despite complete lumbar section. 1963Lancet 12 Jan. 116/1 In three infants the fundus oculi was examined, and in two a lumbar puncture was done.
B. n. [From the elliptical use of the adj.] An artery, nerve, vein or vertebra situated in the loin.
1858H. Gray Anat. 518 The first [lumbar nerve] appears between the first and second lumbar vertebræ, and the last between the last lumbar and the base of the sacrum. 1866Huxley Preh. Rem. Caithn. 148 The processes [of the vertebræ] are coarser and stronger, and the lower oblique processes of the last lumbar are unusually far apart. 1881Mivart Cat 281 The last dorsal nerve sends back a branch which unites with the first lumbar.
▪ II. † lumbar, n.2 Obs.
[app. = Lombard.]
A kind of ship.
13..K. Alis. 6063 In schipes cayvars, In dromondes, and in lumbars [MS. Laud in shippes lumbars].
▪ III. lumbar
obs. form of Lombard, lumber. |