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In a pose even those with supple lumbars would find challenging - balancing on one knee on an oversized beach ball, left arm extended forward, right leg extended back - I felt an all-too-familiar sensation in my right buttock muscle.
Perry Garfinkel: The Epsom Salt Talks: Bathtub Meditations on the Wellness Movement 2008
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The -- My fourth and fifth lumbars were overlapping causing pressure on my spine.
Opening Statement Before House Oversight & Government Reform Committee 2007
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Our ancient queen-size bed was as concave as a satellite dish-the same mattress must have been mangling the lumbars of low-budget gamblers since the Ford Administration-so we sat clustered in its recess like kangaroo babies inside Mom's pouch.
Microserfs Coupland, Douglas 1995
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Of the parietal branches the inferior phrenics and lumbars are paired; the middle sacral is unpaired.
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The vertebral formula (cervicals, thoracics, lumbars, sacrals, caudals) is 7C-13T-6L-4S-21Ca for a total of 51 vertebrae, which differs by only two caudal vertebrae from the formula found in some primitive artiodactyls
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The vertebral column, preserved in articulation, has 7 cervicals, 13 thoracics, 6 lumbars, 4 sacrals, and 21 caudals.
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The vertebral column, preserved in articulation, has 7 cervicals, 13 thoracics, 6 lumbars, 4 sacrals, and 21 caudals.
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