lumbar nerve

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   any of five pairs of spinal nerves emerging from the lumbar section of the spinal cord

   Broaderspinal nerve

Questions about lumbar nerve

What does lumbar nerve mean?

lumbar nerve means "any of five pairs of spinal nerves emerging from the lumbar section of the spinal cord".

Is lumbar nerve a common word?

lumbar nerve is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.