Definition of Lumbar pain

1. Noun. Backache affecting the lumbar region or lower back; can be caused by muscle strain or arthritis or vascular insufficiency or a ruptured intervertebral disc.

Exact synonyms: Lumbago
Generic synonyms: Backache

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lumbar Pain

lumbar cord
lumbar disk removal
lumbar enlargement
lumbar enlargement of spinal cord
lumbar flexure
lumbar ganglia
lumbar hernia
lumbar iliocostal muscle
lumbar interspinal muscle
lumbar interspinales muscles
lumbar laminectomy
lumbar lymph nodes
lumbar nephrectomy
lumbar nerve
lumbar nerves
lumbar pain (current term)
lumbar part of diaphragm
lumbar part of spinal cord
lumbar plexus
lumbar puncture
lumbar puncture needle
lumbar punctures
lumbar quadrate muscle
lumbar radiculopathy
lumbar region
lumbar rheumatism
lumbar rib
lumbar rotator muscles
lumbar segments of spinal cord
lumbar splanchnic nerves

Literary usage of Lumbar pain

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Differential diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1912)
"Chronic lumbar pain points especially to the psychoneuroses and to the pressure group of causes. (3) Is it made much worse by stooping or sidewise bending? ..."

2. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1896)
"When lumbar pain is more indirect in character, of the so-called reflected or transferred variety, the mechanism may be a true transference, ..."

3. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of by Timothy Field Allen (1877)
"Continuous lumbar pain, not increased by stooping, increased by walking (after one hour, fifteenth day),5.—Dull pain in the lumbar region, particularly in ..."

4. Practical gynecology: A Comprehensive Text-book for Students and Physicians by Edward Emmet Montgomery (1907)
"lumbar pain, generally spoken of as backache, is felt in the lower part of the lumbar region, sometimes extending to the region of the kidneys, and, ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"The lumbar pain increased in severity until about the middle of December, ... The lumbar pain was much increased by pressure over the sacrum. ..."

6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1899)
"In sciatica also the method of rising from the sitting posture is peculiar, and is exactly opposite to that seen when lumbar pain is present, ..."

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