lumbar pain

1. 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

   Synonymslumbago

   Broaderbackache

Questions about lumbar pain

What does lumbar pain mean?

lumbar pain means "backache affecting the lumbar region or lower back; can be caused by muscle strain or arthritis or vascular insufficiency or a ruptured intervertebral disc".

What is another word for lumbar pain?

Close synonyms include lumbago. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lumbar pain a common word?

lumbar pain 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.