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Lumbago   /ləmbˈeɪgˌoʊ/   Listen
Lumbago

noun
1.
Backache affecting the lumbar region or lower back; can be caused by muscle strain or arthritis or vascular insufficiency or a ruptured intervertebral disc.  Synonym: lumbar pain.






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"Lumbago" Quotes from Famous Books



... rivers, or any waters which cattle are accustomed to drink, as it is found to communicate a poison destructive to cattle and to the fish inhabiting such waters. In Dundee a hank of yarn is worn round the loins as a cure for lumbago, and girls may be seen with a single thread of yarn round the head as an infallible specific ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie

... likely to suggest this vanity. It is one of his forms of temptation —one of his manoeuvres; and we take leave, by way of warning, to hint to those worthy people, who judge of to-morrow's providence by the corns of their great toe, or their periodical lumbago, or the shooting of their warts, or the pricking of their palms, that it is in truth the devil which is at the bottom of all this, and that the Deity has nothing to do in the business. It is the devil instilling his vanities into the human heart, in that form ...
— Charlemont • W. Gilmore Simms



Words linked to "Lumbago" :   lumbar pain, backache



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