What's the difference between lumbago and lumbar?

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.

Lumbar


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Lumbal

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sixteen patients were operated on for lumbar pain and pain radiating into the sciatic nerve distribution.
  • (2) Two cases of posterior lumbar vertebral rim fracture and associated disc protrusion in adolescents are presented.
  • (3) The electrical stimulation of the tail associated to a restraint condition of the rat produces a significant increase of immunoreactive DYN in cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments of spinal cord, therefore indicating a correlative, if not causal, relationship between the spinal dynorphinergic system and aversive stimuli.
  • (4) The results of operative lumbar sympathectomy for both intermittent claudication and rest pain in 153 patients have been reviewed.
  • (5) Thirty-seven patients with retinoblastoma were evaluated prospectively by clinical examination, lumbar puncture, and CT.
  • (6) The subjects underwent a lumbar puncture and three nights of polysomnography.
  • (7) The prevalence of spondylolisthesis was found to be 5.1%, lumbarization 6.0%, sacralization 5.5% and low intercrestal line 56.9%.
  • (8) The correlation of posterior intervertebral (facet) joint tropism (asymmetry), degenerative facet disease, and intervertebral disc disease was reviewed in a retrospective study of magnetic resonance images of the lumbar spine from 100 patients with complaints of low back pain and sciatica.
  • (9) Lumbosacral spine films revealed only minimal degenerative changes, while lumbar myelogram showed L4-L5 and L5-S1 ventral extradural defects.
  • (10) A traumatic factor in the aetiology of the AVM was also discussed, since the patient had had two preceding episodes of traffic accidents with cranial and lumbar injury.
  • (11) Limb abnormalities included lumbar scoliosis, short malformed tibias and fibulas, and polydactyly.
  • (12) Lumbar dorsal columns showed only a mild fiber loss, and no fiber loss was observed in lumbar dorsal roots.
  • (13) The BMD of the 2nd to 4th lumbar vertebrae was measured and the mean density presented as g cm-2.
  • (14) This study concluded that inverted positioning for short periods significantly increased spinal length and reduced emg activity of the superficial lumbar area musculature of normal males.
  • (15) This study compared 50 patients with lumbar facet fractures and continued pain after lumbar laminectomy with a postlaminectomy control group without facet fractures.
  • (16) CT possesses some advantages over roentgenography in the diagnosis of degenerative vertebral diseases and can be recommended as the principal method together with roentgenography for investigation of patients with lumbar pains.
  • (17) Low values of HVA in lumbar CSF were found in all patients with reduced CSF absorption and CSF flow inversion.
  • (18) We analyzed 80 consecutive cases of lumbar disc herniation who underwent an extraperitoneal anterolateral discectomy according to clinical and radiologic parameters.
  • (19) Both placental and blood-lumbar CSF transfer of diazepam (5 mg orally) and its two metabolites, N-desmethyldiazepam and unconjugated oxazepam, was measured (by GLC) in 15 patients undergoing Caesarean section under spinal analgesia.
  • (20) The rate of symptomatic relief was 81.3% (75 cases) for rheumatoid arthritis, 72.4% (29 cases) for osteoarthritis, 76.5% (34 cases) for herniations of lumbar discs and 93% (91 cases) for mild post-operative pain.

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