lumbar vertebrae
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vertebrae in the region of the lower back, below the thoracic vertebrae and above the sacral vertebrae
Key facts
- Insertions
- Psoas major muscle
- Nerve
- Lumbar nerves
- Latin
- vertebrae lumbales
- Mesh
- D008159
- Ta98
- A02.2.04.001
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
74,968 papers- The morphology of the lumbar vertebrae: a systematic review with meta-analysis of 1481 individuals with implications for spine surgery.Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA · 2024
- Butterfly Vertebrae.Anesthesiology · 2018
- Whole-genome resequencing to investigate the determinants of the multi-lumbar vertebrae trait in sheep.Gene · 2022
- Thoracolumbar Burst Fractures.Clinical spine surgery · 2018
- Lumbar discitis.Archives of disease in childhood · 2006
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Wikidata facts
- Follows
- thoracic vertebra
- Image
- Blausen 0618 LumbarSpine.png
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- tensile modulus of elasticity
- 0.16
- Commons category
- Lumbar vertebrae
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C12744
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Encyclopedic overview
The lumbar vertebrae are located between the thoracic vertebrae and pelvis. They form the lower part of the back in humans, and the tail end of the back in quadrupeds. In humans, there are five lumbar vertebrae. The term is used to describe the anatomy of humans and quadrupeds, such as horses, pigs, or cattle. These bones are found in particular cuts of meat, including tenderloin or sirloin steak.
Human anatomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “lumbar vertebrae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.