Meanings of lumbar vertebra in English

The only oddity was an unfused arch on her fifth lumbar vertebra.

The ball passed through Hamilton's body, breaking a rib, and lodging in the second lumbar vertebra.

Imaging revealed a clivus chordoma and an asymptomatic synchronous second primary chordoma in the fifth lumbar vertebra.

The radiological work-up showed a pseudotumoral left ovarian lesion extended to sacral spine, which involved the fifth lumbar vertebra.

A consult with a specialist at the University of California Davis delivered bad news: She had fractured her fifth lumbar vertebra.

The second lumbar vertebra (human).)

An incision was made down it, and a rusty blade of a seaman's clasp-knife extracted from near the 3d lumbar vertebra.

To penetrate to the front of a lumbar vertebra you'd have to thrust hard enough to pass through the entire abdomen.

Conclusions: Calcitonin attenuates BMD loss in the total body and femur neck but not in trabecular bone of the lumbar vertebra.

It lies immediately behind the peritoneum and descends over the anterior surface of the 5th lumbar vertebra in the retroperitoneal tissue.

The bullet had struck the transverse process of the lumbar vertebra, but had not given rise to any signs of spinal concussion.

The spinal cord as such ends at the level of the first lumbar vertebra in a leash of nerves termed the cauda equina.

Visceral and subcutaneous fat areas and body fat were evaluated by computerized tomography with a single scan at the IV-V lumbar vertebra level.

Skeletal muscle cross-sectional area at the third lumbar vertebra was measured by computerized tomography, and sarcopenia was defined using a previously published cutoff point.

This method has shown its ability to customize the placement and size of each screw, based on the unique morphology of the lumbar vertebra.

The duplication in this case begins just above the waist, the spinal column dividing at the third lumbar vertebra, below this point everything being double.