(n.) That part of a human being or quadruped, which extends on either side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the false ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. See Illust. of Beef.
Example Sentences:
(1) Increasing slaughter weight from 60 to 90% was associated with an increase in panel tenderness scores for loin steaks.
(2) However, trimmed hams and loins from the 20-ppm RAC treatment represented a greater (P less than .05) percentage of carcass weight than did those from control animals.
(3) Stimulation increased the tenderness of loin steaks as determined by both panel scores and shear values, and of bottom round steaks (shear-force values).
(4) More than half of the symptoms were located to the head-neck or back-thorax-loin.
(5) Platelet life span was shortened and the index of renal platelet localization increased when patients with the loin pain and haematuria syndrome received oestrogens.
(6) He was admitted on August 14, 1991, because of right loin pain.
(7) Almost all patients complained of loin pain and 48% had lower urinary tract symptoms.
(8) Pigs fed ractopamine had shorter carcasses, less fat depth and fat area, smaller weights of stomach and colon plus rectum, but higher dressing percentages, longissimus muscle areas, weights of trimmed Boston butts, picnics and loins, ham lean and predicted amounts of muscle than pigs not fed ractopamine (P less than .05).
(9) One is for loin of pork spiced with green peppercorns.
(10) These results suggest that specific gravity or indicators from the carcass, ham or loin section can be employed to predict percentage of protein in pork carcasses.
(11) Two neonates, with a palpable mass in the loin, turned out to have adrenal haemorrhage.
(12) The larvae were expressed by pressure from 2 lesions, on the neck and the loin, and the pockets were disinfected with alcohol.
(13) In 44.3% of cases the disease started from the general cerebral symptomatology and consciousness disturbance; in 13.6% it started in a brain stroke-like manner followed by the development of the comatose status; in 13.6% of cases from memory disorder and unmotivated actions; in the same percentage of cases, the disease onset was marked by the dominance of dizziness, diplopia, ataxia and central hemiplegia ; in 15.9% the disease started from pains in the stomach, loin and lower limbs.
(14) Coefficients were positive (P greater than .10) for individual pig and litter weights at birth and weaning and for the carcass traits of length, longissimus muscle area and percentage of ham and loin.
(15) It is interesting that in our group not only membranous but also minimal change as well as mesangium proliferative glomerulonephritis had high incidence of RVT (47%, 45% and 36% respectively) Only 6 cases (26%) had a typical acute presentation with severe loin pain, significant increase of urinary protein, enlargement of involved kidney.
(16) Breakpoint analysis indicated that 1.11% lysine maximized longissimus muscle area, whereas trimmed ham and loin weights were maximized at .91 and .98% lysine, respectively.
(17) Loin muscle characteristics indicated that differences in tenderness between breed groups were not attributed to cold shortening effects or differences in amount or integrity of connective tissue.
(18) Contrast-enhanced CT and MR imaging of the kidney were performed in two patients with acute renal failure and severe loin pain following a track race.
(19) We describe four patients who presented with either a marked systemic illness or a loin mass due to pyonephrosis.
(20) For older children, loin or abdominal pain was the chief presenting symptom (68%).
Lumbago
Definition:
(n.) A rheumatic pain in the loins and the small of the back.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 45-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with complaints of fever and lumbago.
(2) Endoscopic examination of a 35-year-old patient complaining of tarry stool, palpitation and lumbago led to a diagnosis of gastric cancer of Borrmann type 4.
(3) was compared with that of placebo in 36 patients with acute lumbago-sciatica without root involvement in the form of paresis.
(4) However, recurrence of the bladder tumors and severe lumbago appeared five months after the treatment was completed.
(5) of hundred patients suffering from lumbago we have studied the existence of cytobiochemical and cytoradiological correlations in order to confirm the demonstration of cytologic and biochemical signs of organicisty or seriousness of this frequent pathology.
(6) The patient was a 37-year-old male suffering from lumbago and edema of the lower extremities.
(7) This retrospective study showed that disks do not necessarily become pinched with age, even in patients with lumbago, that the rate of disk pinching is extremely variable from one patient to another, that disk collapse takes an average of 20 to 30 years, that there is a correlation between the severity of the lumbago and the rate at which the disk pinches, and that there are rapidly evolutive discopathies which are responsible for severe lumbago.
(8) The patient's chief complaint had been lumbago and emaciation, and a tumor in her left upper abdomen was found.
(9) A 59 year-old patient had lumbago and pain in hip joints, knees, and ribs of long duration.
(10) Cadmium toxication was liable to occur in multiparous postmenopausal women, and it began with proteinuria, glycosuria, lumbago and bone pain.
(11) He was readmitted 3 weeks after radiochemotherapy with complaints of severe headache, nausea and lumbago.
(12) A 62-year-old woman, who had suffered from putsulosis palmaris et plantaris for about two years, was admitted to our hospital due to lumbago, sweating and palpitation.
(13) The chief complaint was right lumbago in the first case, and fever and left lumbago in the second case.
(14) The diagnostic value of pain mapping in patients with lumbago sciatica and herniated intervertebral discs is evaluated, somatosensory pain descriptions being compared with surgical findings.
(15) Of the patients (mean age 41 years), 460 had acute lumbago, 144 sciatica and 162 had chronic low back pain as a clinical diagnosis.
(16) Posterior pre-marginal disk hernia, a rare lesion, was diagnosed in six young adults with lumbago.
(17) In nine patients, some kind of lumbago continued, which required other treatments, such as epidural block (3.3%).
(18) A 33-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital because of lumbago due to metastatic cancer to the bones.
(19) He had suffered from dyspnea, chest pain and lumbago three weeks prior to admission.
(20) The occupational differences were considerably smaller with regard to lumbago and nonspecific LBP.