What's the difference between lumbago and plumbago?
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.
Plumbago
Definition:
(n.) Same as Graphite.
(n.) A genus of herbaceous plants with pretty salver-shaped corollas, usually blue or violet; leadwort.
Example Sentences:
(1) Plumbagin, a compound derived from the roots of Plumbago zeylanica (Chitramool) was studied for its effect on the development of antibiotic resistance using antibiotic sensitive strains of Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus.
(2) Plumbagin isolated from Plumbago scandens in local use, was responsible for a complete healing of the injuries treated.
(3) Plumbagin (2-methyl-5-hydroxy, 1:4 naphthoquinone) isolated from the roots of Plumbago zeylanica when administered to hyperlipidaemic rabbits, reduced serum cholesterol and LDL-Chol.
(4) Those of Hibiscus, Vitex and Plumbago species, as well as Tripterygium wilfordii glycosides, which are being evaluated in combination with gossypol, are mentioned here.